Novel polypeptides, cDNA encoding the same and utilization thereof

ABSTRACT

Structure  
     A novel human polypeptide, the method for prepareation thereof, a cDNA encoding the polypeptide; a fragment selectively hybridizing with the sequence of the cDNA, a replication or expression plasmid containing the cDNA integrated thereinto, a host cell transformed with plasmid, an antibody against the polypeptide and a pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptide or the antibody.  
     Effect  
     The polypeptides of the present invention possess hematopoiesis regulating activity, tissue generation/regeneration activity, activin/inhibin activity, chemotactic/chemokinetic activity, hemostatic and thrombolytic activity, and receptor/ligand activity, therefore, they are expected to be useful for prevention and/or treatment of various diseases.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0001] The present invention relates to a novel polypeptide, a method for preparation of it, a cDNA encoding it, a vector containing the cDNA, a host cell transformed with the vector, an antibody against the peptide, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptide or the antibody.

PROBLEM TO BE DISSOLVED BY THE INVENTION

[0002] The present inventors et al. have diligently performed certain investigation in order to isolate novel factors (polypeptides) useful for treatment, diagnosis and/or study, particularly, secretory proteins containing secretory signal and membrane protein.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0003] Until now, when a man skilled in the art intends to obtain a particular polypeptide or a cDNA encoding it, he generally utilizes methods by confirming an aimed biological activity in a tissue or in a cell medium, isolating and purifying the polypeptide and then cloning a gene or methods by “expression-cloning” with the guidance of the said biological activity. However, physiologically active polypeptides in living body have often many kinds of activities. Therefore, it happens increasingly that after cloning a gene, the isolated gene is found to be identical to that encoding a polypeptide already known. In addition, some factors could be generated in only a very slight amount and/or under specific conditions and it makes difficult to isolate and to purify the factor and to confirm its biological activity.

RELATED ARTS

[0004] Recent rapid developments in techniques for constructing cDNAs and sequencing techniques have made it possible to quickly sequence a large amount of cDNAs. By utilizing these techniques, a process, which comprises constructing cDNAs library using various cells or tissues, cloning the cDNA at random, identifying the nucleotide sequences thereof, expressing novel polypeptides encoded by them, is now in progress. Although this process is advantageous in that a gene can be cloned and information regarding its nucleotide sequence can be obtained without any biochemical or genetic analysis, the target gene can be discovered thereby only accidentally in many cases.

Mean to Dissolve the Problem

[0005] The present inventors have studied cloning method to isolate genes encoding proliferation and/or differentiation factors functioning in hematopoietic systems and immune systems. Focusing their attention on the fact that most of the secretory proteins such as proliferation and/or differentiation factors (for example various cytokines) and membrane proteins such as receptors thereof (hereafter these proteins will be referred to generally as secretory proteins and the like) have sequences called signal peptides in the N-termini, the inventors have conducted extensive studies on a process for efficiently and selectively cloning a gene encoding for a signal peptide. Finally, we have successfully developed a screening method for the signal peptides (signal sequence trap (SST)) by using mammalian cells (See Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 6-13951). We also developed yeast SST method on the same concept. By the method based on the same conception using yeast, (yeast SST method), genes including sequence encoding signal peptide can be identified more easily and efficiently (See U.S. Pat. No. 5,536,637).

[0006] By using the present invention, the present inventors et al. achieved to find novel secretory proteins and membrane proteins produced from cell lines and tissue, for example, human adult brain tissue, cell lines derived from human brain tissue and cell line derived from human bone marrow, and cDNAs encoding them, and then completed the present invention.

[0007] The present invention provides the cDNA sequences identified as clones OC001, OM237, OA004b which were isolated by the said yeast SST method using cDNA libraries prepared from human adult brain tissue and cell lines derived from human brain tissue (T98G, ATCC No. CRL-1690). Clones OC001, OM237, OA004b were full-length cDNA including full cDNA sequences encoding membrain proteins (Each protein is represented as OC001, OM237, OA004b protein, respectively).

[0008] It was indicated from the results of homology search for the public database of the nucleic acid sequences by using BLASTN and FASTA, and for the public database of the amino acid sequences by using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA, that there was no sequence identical to the polypeptide sequence and the nucleotide sequences of OC001, OM237, OA004b of the present invention. In addition, the polypeptides of the present invention were expected to possess the transmembrane region by hydrophobisity analysis of the obtained amino acid sequences. From these results, it was proved that polypeptides OC001, OM237, OA004b of the present invention were new membrane proteins.

[0009] The present invention provides the cDNA sequence identified as clone OAF075b which was isolated by the said yeast SST method using cDNA libraries prepared from human bone marrow cell line HAS303 (human bone marrow cell line: provided from Prof. Keisuke Sotoyama, Dr. Makoto Aizawa, First Medicine, Tokyo Medical College. see J. Cell. Physiol. 148, 245-251, 1991 and Experimental Hematol. 22, 482-487, 1994). Clone OAF075b was a full-length cDNA including a full cDNA sequence encoding secretory protein (this protein is represented as OAF075b protein).

[0010] It was indicated from the results of homology search for the public database of the nucleic acid sequences by using BLASTN and FASTA, and for the public database of the amino acid sequences by using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA, that there was no sequence identical to the polypeptide sequence and the nucleotide sequence of OAF075b of the present invention. In addition, the polypeptide of the present invention was expected to possess no transmembrane region by hydrophobisity analysis of the obtained amino acid sequence. From these results, it was proved that polypeptide of the present invention was a new secretory protein.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE INVENTION

[0011] The present invention relates to

[0012] (1) a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12,

[0013] (2) a cDNA encoding the polypeptide described in (1),

[0014] (3) a cDNA comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10 or 13, and

[0015] (4) a cDNA comprising a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NOS. 3, 8, 11 or 14.

[0016] The present invention relates to a substantially purified form of the polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12, homologue thereof, fragment thereof or homologue of the fragment.

[0017] Further, the present invention relates to cDNAs encoding the above peptides. More particularly the invention is provided cDNAs comprising nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10 or 13, and cDNA containing a fragment which is selectively hybridizing to the cDNA comprising nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7,10,13, 3, 8, 11 or 14. A said cDNA capable for hybridizing to the cDNA includes the contemporary sequence of the above sequence.

[0018] A polypeptide comprising amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12 in substantially purified form will generally comprise the polypeptide in a preparation in which more than 90%, e.g. 95%, 98% or 99% of the polypeptide in the preparation is that of the SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12.

[0019] A homologue of polypeptide comprising amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12 will be generally at least 70%, preferably at least 80 or 90% and more preferably at least 95% homologous to the polypeptide comprising the said amino acid sequence over a region of at least 20, preferably at least 30, for instance 40, 60 or 100 more contiguous amino acids. Such a polypeptide homologue will be referred to a polypeptide of the present invention.

[0020] Further, a fragment of polypeptide comprising amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12 or its homologues will be at least 10, preferably at least 15, for example 20, 25, 30, 40, 50 or 60 amino acids in length.

[0021] A cDNA capable of selectively hybridizing to the cDNA comprising nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2,5, 7,10,13, 3, 8, 11 or 14 will be generally at least 70%, preferably at least 80 or 90% and more preferably at least 95% homologous to the cDNA comprising the said nucleotide sequence over a region of at least 20, preferably at least 30, for instance 40, 60 or 100 or more contiguous nucleotides. Such a cDNA will be referred to “a cDNA of the present invention”.

[0022] Fragments of the cDNA comprising nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 3, 8, 11 or 14 will be at least 10, preferably at least 15, for example 20, 25, 30 or 40 nucleotides in length, and will be also referred to “a cDNA of the present invention” as used herein.

[0023] A further embodiment of the present invention provides replication and expression vectors carrying cDNA of the present invention. The vectors may be, for example, plasmid, virus or phage vectors provided with an origin of replication, optionally a promoter for the expression of the said cDNA and optionally a regulator of the promoter. The vector may contain one or more selectable marker genes, for example ampicillin resistance gene. The vector may be used in vitro, for example of the production of RNA corresponding to the cDNA, or used to transfect a host cell.

[0024] A further embodiment of the present invention provides host cells transformed with the vectors for the replication and expression of the cDNA of the present invention, including the cDNA comprising nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10, 13, 3, 8, 11 or 14 or the open reading frame thereof. The cells will be chosen to be compatible with the vector and may for example be bacterial, yeast, insect cells or mammalian cells.

[0025] A further embodiment of the present invention provides a method of producing a polypeptide which comprises culturing host cells of the present invention under conditions effective to express a polypeptide of the present invention. Preferably, in addition, such a method is carried out under conditions in which the polypeptide of the present invention is expressed and then produced from the host cells.

[0026] cDNA of the present invention may also be inserted into the vectors described above in an antisense orientation in order to prove for the production of antisense RNA. Such antisense RNA may be used in a method of controlling the levels of a polypeptide of the present invention in a cell.

[0027] The invention also provides monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies against a polypeptide of the present invention. The invention further provides a process for the production of monoclonal or polyclonal antibodies to the polypeptides of the present invention. Monoclonal antibodies may be prepared by common hybridoma technology using polypeptides of the present invention or fragments thereof, as an immunogen. Polyclonal antibodies may also be prepared by common means which comprise inoculating host animals, (for example a rat or a rabbit etc.), with polypeptides of the present invention and recovering immune serum.

[0028] The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions containing a polypeptide of the present invention, or an antibody thereof, in association with a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent and/or carrier.

[0029] The polypeptide of the present invention specified in (1) includes that which a part of their amino acid sequence is lacking (e.g., a polypeptide comprised of the only essential sequence for revealing a biological activity in an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 1), that which a part of their amino acid sequence is replaced by other amino acids (e. g., those replaced by an amino acid having a similar property) and that which other amino acids are added or inserted into a part of their amino acid sequence, as well as those comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12.

[0030] As known well, there are one to six kinds of codon as that encoding one amino acid (for example, one kind of codon for Methionine (Met), and six kinds of codon for Leucine (Leu) are known). Accordingly, the nucleotide sequence of cDNA can be changed in order to encode the polypeptide having the same amino acid sequence.

[0031] The cDNA of the present invention, specified in (2) includes a group of every nucleotide sequence encoding polypeptides (1) shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12. There is a probability that yield of a polypeptide is improved by changing a nucleotide sequence.

[0032] The cDNA specified in (3) is the embodiment of the cDNA shown in (2), and indicate the sequence of natural form.

[0033] The cDNA shown in (4) indicates the sequence of the cDNA specified in (3) with natural non-translational region.

[0034] cDNA carrying nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 3, 8, 11 or 14 is prepared by the following method:

[0035] Brief description of Yeast SST method (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,536,637) is as follows.

[0036] Yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae should secrete invertase into the medium in order to take sucrose or raffinose as a source of energy or carbon. (Invertase is an enzyme to cleave raffinose into sucrose and melibiose, sucrose into fructose and glucose). It is known that many known mammalian signal sequence make yeast secrete its invertase. From these knowledge, SST method was developed as a screening method to find novel signal peptide which make it possible can to secrete yeast invertase from mammalian cDNA library. SST method uses yeast growth on raffinose medium as a marker. Non-secretory type invertase gene SUC2 (GENBANK Accession No. V 01311) lacking initiation codon ATG was inserted to yeast expression vector to prepare yeast SST vector pSUC2. In this expression vector, ADH promoter, ADH terminator (both were derived from AAH5 plasmid (Gammerer, Methods in Enzymol. 101, 192-201, 1983)), 2 μori (as a yeast replication origin), TRP1 (as a yeast selective marker), ColE1 ori (as a E. Coli replication origin) and ampicillin resistance gene (as a drug resistance marker) were inserted. Mammalian cDNA was inserted into the upstream of SUC2 gene to prepare yeast SST cDNA library. Yeast lacking secretory type invertase, was transformed with this library. If inserted mammalian cDNA encodes a signal peptide, yeast could survive in raffinose medium as a result of restoring secretion of invertase. Only to culture yeast colonies, prepare plasmids and determine the nucleotide sequence of the insert cDNAs, it is possible to identify novel signal peptide rapidly and easily.

[0037] Preparation of yeast SST cDNA library is as follows:

[0038] (1) mRNA is isolated from the targeted cells, double-strand synthesis is performed by using random primer with certain restriction enzyme (enzyme I) recognition site,

[0039] (2) obtained double-strand cDNA is ligated to adapter containing certain restriction endonuclease (enzyme II) recognition site, differ from enzyme I, digested with enzyme I and fractionated in a appropriate size,

[0040] (3) obtained cDNA fragment is inserted into yeast expression vector on the upstream region of invertase gene which signal peptide is deleted and the library was transformed.

[0041] Detailed description of each step is as follows:

[0042] (1) mRNA is isolated from mammalian organs and cell lines stimulate them with appropriate stimulator if necessary) by known methods (Molecular Cloning (Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. and Maniatis, T., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1989) or Current Protocol in Molecular Biology (F. M. Ausubel et al, John Wiley & Sons, Inc) if not remark especially).

[0043] HAS303 (human bone marrow stroma cell line: provide from Professor Keisuke Sotoyama, Dr. Makoto Aizawa of First Medicine, Tokyo Medical College; see J. Cell. Physiol., 148, 245-251, 1991 and Experimental Hematol., 22, 482-487,1994) or human glioblastoma cell line TG98G (ATCC No. CRL-1690) are chosen as a cell line. Human adult brain is chosen as a tissue source. Double-strand cDNA synthesis using random primer is performed by known methods.

[0044] Any sites may be used as restriction endonuclease recognition site I which is linked to adapter and restriction endonuclease recognition site II which is used in step (2), if both sites are different each other. Preferably, XhoI is used as enzyme I and EcoRI as enzyme II.

[0045] In step (2), cDNA is created blunt-ends with T4 DNA polymerase, ligated enzyme II adapter and digested with enzyme I. Fragment cDNA is analyzed with agarose-gel electrophoresis (AGE) and is selected cDNA fraction ranging in size from 300 to 800 bp. As mentioned above, any enzyme may be used as enzyme II if it is not same the enzyme I.

[0046] In step (3), cDNA fragment obtained in step (2) is inserted into yeast expression vector on the upstream region of invertase gene which signal peptide is deleted. E. Coli was transformed with the expression vector. Many vectors are known as yeast expression plasmid vector. For example, YEp24 is also functioned in E. Coli. Preferably pSUC2 as described above is used.

[0047] Many host E. Coli strains are known for transformation, preferably DH10B competent cell is used. Any known transformation method is available, preferably it is performed by electropolation method. Transformant is cultured by conventional methods to obtain cDNA library for yeast SST method.

[0048] However not every all of the clones do not contain cDNA fragment. Further all of the gene fragments do not encode unknown signal peptides. It is therefore necessary to screen a gene fragment encoding for an unknown signal peptide from the library.

[0049] That is to say, screening of fragments containing a sequence encoding an appropriate signal peptide is performed by transformation of the cDNA library into Saccharomyces cerevisiae (e. g. YT455 strain) which lack invertase (it may be prepared by known methods). Transformation of yeast is performed by known methods, e. g. lithium acetate method. Transformant is cultured in a selective medium, then transferred to a medium containing raffinose as a carbon source. Survival colonies are selected and then prepared plasmid. Survival colonies on a raffinose-medium indicates that some signal peptide of secretory protein was inserted to this clone.

[0050] As for isolated positive clones, the nucleotide sequence is determined. As to a cDNA encodes unknown protein, full-length clone may be isolated by using cDNA fragment as a probe and then determined to obtain full-length nucleotide sequence. These manipulation is performed by known methods.

[0051] Once the nucleotide sequences shown in SEQ ID NO. 2, 5, 7, 10 or 13 are determined partially or preferably fully, it is possible to obtain DNA encode mammalian protein itself, homologue or subset. cDNA library or mRNA derived from mammals was screened by PCR with any synthesized oligonucleotide primers or by hybridization with any fragment as a probe. It is possible to obtain DNA encodes other mammalian homologue protein from other mammalian cDNA or genome library.

[0052] If a cDNA obtained above contains a nucleotide sequence of cDNA fragment obtained by SST (or consensus sequence thereof), it will be thought that the cDNA encodes signal peptide. So it is clear that the cDNA will be full-length or almost full. (All signal peptides exist at N-termini of a protein and are encoded at 5′-temini of open reading frame of cDNA)

[0053] The confirmation may be carried out by Northern analysis with the said cDNA as a probe. It is thought that the cDNA is almost complete length, if length of the cDNA is almost the same length of the mRNA obtained in the hybridizing band.

[0054] Once the nucleotide sequences shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10 or 13 are determined, DNAs of the invention are obtained by chemical synthesis, or by hybridization making use of nucleotide fragments which are chemically synthesized as a probe. Furthermore, DNAs of the invention are obtained in desired amount by transforming a vector that contains the DNA into a proper host, and culturing the transformant.

[0055] The polypeptides of the present invention may be prepared by:

[0056] (1) isolating and purifying from an organism or a cultured cell,

[0057] (2) chemically synthesizing, or

[0058] (3) using recombinant cDNA technology,

[0059] preferably, by the method described in (3) in an industrial production.

[0060] Examples of expression system (host-vector system) for producing a polypeptide by using recombinant cDNA technology are the expression systems of bacteria, yeast, insect cells and mammalian cells.

[0061] In the expression of the polypeptide, for example, in E. Coli, the expression vector is prepared by adding the initiation codon (ATG) to 5′ end of a cDNA encoding mature peptide, connecting the cDNA thus obtained to the downstream of a proper promoter (e. g., trp promoter, lac promoter, λPL promoter, T7 promoter etc.), and then inserting it into a vector (e. g., pBR322, pUC18, pUC19 etc.) which functions in an E. Coli strain.

[0062] Then, an E. Coli strain (e. g., E. Coli DH1 strain, E. Coli JM109 strain, E. Coli HB101 strain, etc.) which is transformed with the expression vector described above may be cultured in a appropriate medium to obtain the desired polypeptide. When a signal sequence of bacteria (e.g., signal sequence of pel B) is utilized, the desired polypeptide may be also released in periplasm. Furthermore, a fusion protein with other polypeptide may be also produced readily.

[0063] In the expression of the polypeptide, for example, in a mammalian cells, for example, the expression vector is prepared by inserting the cDNA encoding nucleotide shown in SEQ ID NOS. 3, 8, 11 or 14 into the downstream of a proper promoter (e. g., SV40 promoter, LTR promoter, metallothionein promoter etc.) in a proper vector (e. g., retrovirus vector, papilloma virus vector, vaccinia virus vector, SV40 vector, etc.). A proper mammalian cell (e. g., monkey COS-7 cell, Chinese hamster CHO cell, mouse L cell etc.) is transformed with the expression vector thus obtained, and then the transformant is cultured in a proper medium to express the aimed secretory protein and membrane protein of the present invention by the following method.

[0064] In case of secretory protein as for the present invention, the aimed polypeptide was expressed in the supernatant of the cells. In addition, fusion protein may be prepared by conjugating cDNA fragment encoding the other polypeptide, for example, Fc portion of antibody.

[0065] On the other hand, in case of membrane protein as for the present invention, the aimed polypeptide was expressed on the cell membrane. A cDNA encoding the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10 or 13 with deletion of extracellular region was inserted into the said vector, transfected into the an adequate mammalian cells to secret the aimed soluble polypeptide in the culture medium. In addition, fusion protein may be prepared by conjugating cDNA fragment encoding the said mutant with deletion of extracellular region and other polypeptide, for example, Fc portion of antibody.

[0066] The polypeptide available by the way described above can be isolated and purified by conventional biochemical method.

EFFECT OF THE INVENTION

[0067] It is considered that the polypeptide of the present invention and a cDNA which encodes the polypeptide will show one or more of the effects or biological activities (including those which relates to the assays cited below) The effects or biological activities described in relation to the polypeptide of the present invention are provided by administration or use of the polypeptide or by administration or use of a cDNA molecule which encodes the polypeptide (e. g., vector suitable for gene therapy or cDNA introduction).

Cytokine Activity and Cell Proliferation/Differentiation Activity

[0068] The protein of the present invention may exhibit cytokine, cell proliferation (either inducing or inhibiting) or cell differentiation (either inducing or inhibiting) activity or may induce production of other cytokines in certain cell populations. Many protein factors discovered to date, including all known cytokines, have exhibited activity in one or more factor dependent cell proliferation assays, and hence the assays serve as a convenient confirmation of cytokine activity. The activity of a polypeptide of the present invention is evidenced by any one of a number of routine factor dependent cell proliferation assays for cell lines.

Immune Stimulating/Suppressing Activity

[0069] The protein of the present invention may also exhibit immune stimulating or immune suppressing activity. The protein of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of various immune deficiencies and disorders (including severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)), e.g., in regulating (up or down) growth and proliferation of T and/or B lymphocytes, as well as effecting the cytolytic activity of NK cells and other cell populations. These immune deficiencies may be genetic or be caused by viral infection such as HIV as well as bacterial or fungal infections, or may result from autoimmune disorders. More specifically, infectious diseases causes by viral, bacterial, fungal or other infection may be treatable using the polypeptide of the present invention, including infections by HIV, hepatitis viruses, herpes viruses, mycobacteria, leshmania, malaria and various fungal infections such as candida. Of course, in this regard, the protein of the present invention may also be useful where a boost to the immune system generally would be indicated, i. e., in the treatment of cancer.

[0070] The protein of the present invention may be useful in the treatment of allergic reactions and conditions, such as asthma or other respiratory problems. The protein of the present invention may also be useful in the treatment of the other conditions required to suppress the immuno system (for example, asthma or respiratory disease)

[0071] The protein of the present invention may also suppress chronic or acute inflammation, such as, for example, that associated with infection such as septic shock or systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease or resulting from over production of cytokines such as TNF or IL-I wherein the effect was demonstrated by IL-11.

Hematopoiesis Regulating Activity

[0072] The protein of the present invention may be useful in regulation of hematopoiesis and, consequently, in the treatment of myeloid or lymphoid cell deficiencies. Even marginal biological activity in support of colony forming cells or of factor-dependent cell lines indicates involvement in regulating hematopoiesis. The said biological activities are concerned with the following all or some example(s). e. g. in supporting the growth and proliferation of erythroid progenitor cells alone or in combination with other cytokines, thereby indicating utility, for example, in treating various anemia or for use in conjunction with irradiation/chemotherapy to stimulate the production of erythroid precursors and/or erythroid cells; in supporting the growth and proliferation of myeloid cells such as granulocytes and monocytes/macrophages (i. e., traditional CSF activity) useful, for example, in conjunction with chemotherapy to prevent or treat consequent myelo-suppression; in supporting the growth and proliferation of megakaryocytes and consequently of platelets thereby allowing prevention or treatment of various platelet disorders such as thrombocytopenia, and generally for use in place of or complimentary to platelet transfusions; and/or in supporting the growth and proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells which are capable of maturing to any and all of the above-mentioned hematopoietic cells and therefore find therapeutic utility in various stem cell disorders (such as those usually treated with transplantation, including, without limitation, aplastic anemia and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria), as well as in repopulating the stem cell compartment post irradiation/chemotherapy, either in-vitro or ex-vivo (i. e. in conjunction with bone marrow transplantation) as normal cells or genetically manipulated for gene therapy.

[0073] The activity of the protein of the present invention may, among other means, be measured by the following methods:

Tissue Generation/Regeneration Activity

[0074] The protein of the present invention also may have utility in compositions used for bone, cartilage, tendon, Ligament and/or nerve tissue growth or regeneration, as well as for wound healing and tissue repair, and in the treatment of burns, incisions and ulcers.

[0075] The protein of the present invention, which induces cartilage and/or bone growth in circumstances where bone is not normally formed, may be applied to the healing of bone fractures and cartilage damage or defects in humans and other animals. Such a preparation employing the protein of the present invention may have prophylactic use in closed as well as open fracture reduction and also in the improved fixation of artificial joints. De novo bone formation induced by an osteogenic agent contributes to the repair of congenital, trauma induced, or oncologic resection induced craniofacial defects, and also is useful in cosmetic plastic surgery.

[0076] The protein of the present invention may also be used in the treatment of periodontal disease, and in other tooth repair processes. Such agents may provide an environment to attract bone-forming cells, stimulate growth of bone-forming cells or induce differentiation of progenitors of bone-forming cells. The protein of the present invention may also be useful in the treatment of osteoporosis or osteoarthritis, such as through stimulation of bone and/or cartilage repair or by blocking inflammation or processes of tissue destruction (collagenase activity, osteoclast activity, etc.) mediated by inflammatory processes.

[0077] Another category of tissue regeneration activity that may be attributable to the protein of the present invention is tendon/ligament formation. The protein of the present invention, which induces tendon/ligament-like tissue or other tissue formation in circumstances where such tissue is not normally formed, may be applied to the healing of tendon or ligament tears, deformities and other tendon or ligament defects in humans and other animals. Such a preparation employing the protein inducing a tendon/Ligament-like tissue may have prophylactic use in preventing damage to tendon or ligament tissue, as well as use in the improved fixation of tendon or ligament to bone or other tissues, and in repairing defects to tendon or ligament tissue. De novo tendon/ligament-like tissue formation induced by a composition of the present invention contributes to the repair of congenital, trauma induced, or other tendon or ligament defects of other origin, and is also useful in cosmetic plastic surgery for attachment or repair of tendons or ligaments. The compositions of the present invention may provide an environment to attract tendon- or ligament-forming cells, stimulate growth of tendon- or ligament-forming cells, induce differentiation of progenitors of tendon- or ligament-forming cells, or induce growth of tendon Ligament cells or progenitors ex vivo for return in vivo to effect tissue repair. The compositions of the present invention may also be useful in the treatment of tendinitis, Carpal tunnel syndrome and other tendon or ligament defects. The compositions may also include an appropriate matrix and/or sequestering agent as a carrier as is well known in the art.

[0078] The protein of the present invention may also be useful for proliferation of neural cells and for regeneration of nerve and brain tissue. i. e. for the treatment of central and peripheral nervous system diseases and neuropathies. as well as mechanical and traumatic disorders, which involve degeneration, death or trauma to neural cells or nerve tissue. More specifically, the protein of the present invention may be used in the treatment of diseases of the peripheral nervous system, such as peripheral nerve injuries, peripheral neuropathy and localized neuropathies, and central nervous system diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Shy-Drager syndrome. Further conditions which may be treated in accordance with the invention include mechanical and traumatic disorders, such as spinal cord disorders, head trauma and cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke. Peripheral neuropathies resulting from chemotherapy or other medical therapies may also be treatable using the polypeptide of the present invention.

[0079] It is expected that the protein of the present invention may also exhibit activity for generation of other tissues, such as organs (including, for example, pancreas, liver, intestine, kidney, skin, endothelium), muscle (smooth, skeletal or cardiac) and vascular (including vascular endothelium) tissue, or for promoting the proliferation of cells comprising such tissues. Part of the desired effects may be by inhibition of fibrotic scarring to allow normal tissue to regenerate.

[0080] The protein of the present invention may also be useful for gut protection or regeneration and treatment of lung or liver fibrosis, reperfusion injury in various tissues, and conditions resulting from systemic cytokine damage.

Activin/Inhibin Activity

[0081] The protein of the present invention may also exhibit activin- or inhibin-related activities. Inhibins are characterized by their ability to inhibit the release of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), while activins are characterized by their ability to stimulate the release of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). Thus, the protein of the present invention alone or in heterodimers with a member of the inhibin *a family, may be useful as a contraceptive based on the ability of inhibins to decrease fertility in female mammals and decrease spermatogenesis in male mammals. Administration of sufficient amounts of other inhibins can induce infertility in these mammals. Alternatively, the protein of the present invention, as a homodimer or as a heterodimer with other protein subunits of the inhibin-*b group, may be useful as a fertility inducing therapeutic, based upon the ability of activin molecules in stimulating FSH release from cells of the anterior pituitary (See U.S. Pat. No. 4,798,885). The protein of the present invention may also be useful for advancement of the onset of fertility in sexually immature mammals, so as to increase the lifetime reproductive performance of domestic animals such as cows, sheep and pigs.

Chemotactic/Chemokinetic Activity

[0082] The protein of the present invention may have chemotactic or chemokinetic activity e. g., functioning as a chemokine, for mammalian cells, including, for example, monocytes, neutrophils, T-cells, mast cells, eosinophils and/or endothelial cells. Chemotactic and chemokinetic proteins can be used to mobilize or attract a desired cell population to a desired site of action. Chemotactic or chemokinetic proteins provide particular advantages in treatment of wounds and other trauma to tissues, as well as in treatment of localized infections. For example, attraction of lymphocytes, monocytes or neutrophils to tumors or sites of infection may result in improved immune responses against the tumor or infecting agent.

[0083] If a protein or peptide can stimulate, directly or indirectly, the directed orientation or movement of such cell population, it has chemotactic activity for a particular cell population. Preferably, the protein or peptide has the ability to directly stimulate directed movement of cells. Whether a particular protein has chemotactic activity for a population of cells can be readily determined by employing such protein or peptide in any known assay for cell chemotaxis.

Hemostatic and Thrombolytic Activity

[0084] The protein of the present invention may also exhibit hemostatic or thrombolyic activity. As a result, such a protein is expected to be useful in treatment of various coagulation disorders (including hereditary disorders, such as hemophilias) or to enhance coagulation and other hemostatic events in treating wounds resulting from trauma, surgery or other causes. A protein of the present invention may also be useful for dissolving or inhibiting formation of thromboses and for treatment and prevention of conditions resulting therefrom such as, for example, infarction or stroke.

Receptor/Ligand Activity

[0085] The protein of the present invention may also demonstrate activity as receptors, receptor ligands or inhibitors or agonists of receptor/ligand interactions. Examples of such receptors and ligands include, without limitation, cytokine receptors and their ligands, receptor kinases and their ligands, receptor phosphatases and their ligands, receptors involved in cell-cell interactions and their ligands (including cellular adhesion molecules such as Selectins, Integrins and their ligands) and receptor/ligand pairs involved in antigen presentation, antigen recognition and development of cellular and humoral immune responses. Receptors and ligands are also useful for screening of potential peptide or small molecule inhibitors of the relevant receptor/ligand interaction. The protein of the present invention (including, without limitation, fragments of receptors and ligands) may themselves be useful as inhibitors of receptor/ligand interactions.

Other Activity

[0086] The protein of the present invention may also exhibit one or more of the following additional activities or effects: inhibiting growth of or killing the infecting agents including bacteria, viruses, fungi and other parasites; effecting (suppressing or enhancing) body characteristics including height, weight, hair color, eye color, skin, other tissue pigmentation, or organ or body part size or shape such as, for example, breast augmentation or diminution etc.; effecting elimination of dietary fat, protein, carbohydrate; effecting behavioral characteristics including appetite, libido, stress, cognition (including cognitive disorders), depression and violent behaviors; providing analgesic effects or other pain reducing effects; promoting differentiation and growth of embryonic stem cells in lineages other than hematopoietic lineages; in the case of enzymes, correcting deficiencies of the enzyme and treating deficiency-related diseases.

[0087] The protein with above activities, is suspected to have following functions by itself or interaction with its ligands or receptors or association with other molecules. For example, proliferation or cell death of B cells, T cells and/or mast cells; specific induction by promotion of class switch of immunoglobulin genes; differentiation of B cells to antibody-forming cells; proliferation, differentiation, or cell death of precursors of granulocytes; proliferation, differentiation, or cell death of precursors of monocytes-macrophages; proliferation, of up regulation or cell death of neutrophils, monocytes-macrophages, eosinophils and/or basophils; proliferation, or cell death of precursors of megakaryocytes; proliferation, differentiation, or cell death of precursors of neutrophils; proliferation, differentiation, or cell death of precursors of T cells and B cells; promotion of production of erythrocytes; sustainment of proliferation of erythrocytes, neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes-macrophages, mast cells, precursors of megakaryocyte; promotion of migration of neutrophils, monocytes-macrophages, B cells and/or T cells; proliferation or cell death of thymocytes; suppression of differentiation of adipocytes; proliferation or cell death of natural killer cells; proliferation or cell death of hematopoietic stem cells; suppression of proliferation of stem cells and each hematopoietic precursor cells; promotion of differentiation from mesenchymal stem cells to osteoblasts or chondrocytes, proliferation or cell death of mesenchymal stem cells, osteoblasts or chondrocytes and promotion of bone absorption by activation of osteoclasts and promotion of differentiation from monocytes to osteoclasts.

[0088] The present polypeptide is also suspected to function to nervous system, so expected to have functions below; differentiation to kinds of neurotransmitter-responsive neurons, survival or cell death of these cells; promotion of proliferation or cell death of glial cells; spread of neural dendrites; survival or cell death of gangriocytes; proliferation, promotion of differentiation, or cell death of astrocytes; proliferation, survival or cell death of peripheral neurons; proliferation or cell death of Schwann cells; proliferation, survival or cell death of motoneurons.

[0089] Furthermore, in the process of development of early embryonic, the present polypeptide is expected to promote or inhibit the organogenesis of epidermis, brain, backbone, and nervous system by induction of ectoderm, that of notochord connective tissues (bone, muscle, tendon), hemocytes, heart, kidney, and genital organs by induction of mesoderm, and that of digestive apparatus (stomach, intestine, liver, pancreas), respiratory apparatus (lung, trachea) by induction of endoderm. In adult, also, this polypeptide is thought to proliferate or inhibit the above organs.

[0090] Therefore, the polypeptide of the present invention itself is expected to be used as an agent for the prevention or treatment of disease of progression or suppression of immune, nervous, or bone metabolic function, hypoplasia or overgrowth of hematopoietic cells: for example, inflammatory disease (rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, etc.), decrease of hematopoietic stem cells after bone marrow transplantation, decrease of leukocytes, platelets, B-cells, or T-cells after radiation exposure or chemotherapeutic dosage against cancer or leukemia, anemia, infectious disease, cancer, leukemia, AIDS, bone metabolic disease (osteoporosis etc.), various degenerative disease (Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, etc.), or nervous lesion.

[0091] In addition, since the present polypeptide is thought to induce the differentiation or growth of organs derived from ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm, this polypeptide is expected to be an agent for tissue repair (epidermis, bone, muscle, tendon, heart, kidney, stomach, intestine, liver, pancreas, lung, and trachea, etc.).

[0092] By using polyclonal or monoclonal antibodies against the said polypeptide, quantitation of the said polypeptide in the body can be performed. It can be used in the study of relationship between this polypeptide and disease or diagnosis of disease, and so on. Polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies can be prepared using this polypeptide or its fragment as an antigen by conventional methods.

[0093] Identification, purification or molecular cloning of known or unknown proteins which bind the present polypeptide (preferably polypeptide of extracellular domain) can be performed using the said polypeptide by, for example, preparation of the affinity-column.

[0094] Identification of the downstream signal transmission molecules which interact with the said polypeptide in cytoplasma and molecular cloning of the gene can be performed by west-western method using the said polypeptide (preferably polypeptide of transmembrane region or intracellular domain), or by yeast two-hybrid system using the cDNA (preferably cDNA encoding transmembrane region or cytoplasmic domain of the polypeptide).

[0095] Agonists/antagonists of this receptor polypeptide and inhibitors between receptor and signal transduction molecules can be screened using the present polypeptide.

[0096] cDNAs of the present invention are useful not only the important and essential template for the production of the polypeptide of the present invention which is expected to be largely useful, but also be useful for diagnosis or therapy (for example, treatment of gene lacking, treatment to stop the expression of the polypeptide by antisense cDNA (mRNA)). Genomic cDNA may be isolated with the cDNA of the present invention, as a probe. As the same manner, a human gene encoding which can be highly homologous to the cDNA of the present invention, that is, which encodes a polypeptide highly homologous to the polypeptide of the present invention and a gene of animals excluding mouse which can be highly homologous to the cDNA of the present invention, also may be isolated.

Application to Medicaments

[0097] The polypeptide of the present invention or the antibody specific for the polypeptide of the present invention is administered systemically or topically and in general orally or parenterally, preferably parenterally, intravenously and intraventricularly, for preventing or treating the said diseases.

[0098] The doses to be administered depend upon age, body weight, symptom, desired therapeutic effect, route of administration, and duration of the treatment etc. In human adults, one dose per person is generally between 100 μg and 100 mg, by oral administration, up to several times per day, and between 10 μg and 100 mg, by parental administration up to several times per day.

[0099] As mentioned above, the doses to be used depend upon various conditions. Therefore, there are cases in which doses lower than or greater than the ranges specified above may be used.

[0100] The compounds of the present invention, may be administered as solid compositions, liquid compositions or other compositions for oral administration, as injections, liniments or suppositories etc. for parental administration.

[0101] Solid compositions for oral administration include compressed tablets, pills, capsules, dispersible powders, and granules. Capsules include soft or hard capsules.

[0102] In such compositions, one or more of the active compound(s) is or are admixed with at least one inert diluent (such as lactose, mannitol, glucose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, starch, polyvinylpyrrolidone, magnesium metasilicate aluminate, etc.). The compositions may also comprise, as is normal practice, additional substances other than inert diluents: e. g. lubricating agents (such as magnesium stearate etc.), disintegrating agents (such as cellulose calcium glycolate, etc.), stabilizing agents (such as human serum albumin, lactose etc.), and assisting agents for dissolving (such as arginine, asparaginic acid etc.).

[0103] The tablets or pills may, if desired, be coated with a film of gastric or enteric materials (such as sugar, gelatin, hydroxypropyl cellulose or hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose phthalate, etc.), or be coated with more than two films. And then, coating may include containment within capsules of absorbable materials such as gelatin.

[0104] Liquid compositions for oral administration include pharmaceutically-acceptable emulsions, solutions, syrups and elixirs. In such compositions, one or more of the active compound(s) is or are contained in inert diluent(s) commonly used (purified water, ethanol etc.). Besides inert diluents, such compositions may also comprise adjuvants (such as wetting agents, suspending agents, etc.), sweetening agents, flavoring agents, perfuming agents, and preserving agents.

[0105] Other compositions for oral administration include spray compositions which may be prepared by known methods and which comprise one or more of the active compound(s). Spray compositions may comprise additional substances other than inert diluents: e. g. stabilizing agents (sodium sulfite etc.), isotonic buffer (sodium chloride, sodium citrate, citric acid, etc.). For preparation of such spray compositions, for example, the method described in the U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,868,691 or 3,095,355 (herein incorporated in their entireties by reference) may be used.

[0106] Injections for parental administration include sterile aqueous or non-aqueous solutions, suspensions and emulsions. In such compositions, one or more active compound(s) is or are admixed with at least one inert aqueous diluent(s) (distilled water for injection, physiological salt solution, etc.) or inert non-aqueous diluents(s) (propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol, olive oil, ethanol, POLYSOLBATE 80 (Trade mark) etc.).

[0107] Injections may comprise additional compound other than inert diluents: e. g. preserving agents, wetting agents, emulsifying agents, dispersing agents, stabilizing agent (such as human serum albumin, lactose, etc.), and assisting agents such as assisting agents for dissolving (arginine, asparaginic acid, etc.).

EXAMPLES

[0108] The invention is illustrated by the following examples relating to clone OC001 of the present invention, but not limit the invention.

Preparation of Poly(A)⁺RNA

[0109] Total RNA was prepared from human placenta tissue by TRIzol reagent (Trade Mark, marketed from GIBCOBRL Co.). Poly(A)⁺RNA was purified from the total RNA by mRNA Purification Kit (Trade name, marketed from Pharmacia Co.).

Preparation of Yeast SST cDNA Library

[0110] Double strand cDNA was synthesized by Super Script Plasmid System for cDNA Synthesis and Plasmid Cloning (Trade name, marketed from GIBCOBRL Co.) with above poly(A)⁺RNA as template and random 9 mer as primer which was containing Xhol site:

[0111] 5′-CGATTGAATTCTAGACCTGCCTCGAGNNNNNNNNN-3′

[0112] cDNA was ligated EcoRI adapter by DNA ligation kit ver. 2 (Trade name, marketed from Takara-Shuzo Co., this kit was used in all ligating steps hereafter) and digested by Xhol. cDNAs were separated by agarose-gel electrophoresis. 300˜800 bp cDNAs were isolated and were ligated to EcoRI/NotI site of pSUC2 (see U.S. Pat. No. 5,536,637). E. Coli DH10B strains were transformed by pSUC2 with electropolation to obtain yeast SST cDNA library.

Screening by SST Method and Determination of Nucleotide Sequence of SST Positive Clone

[0113] Plasmids of the said cDNA library were prepared. Yeast YTK12 strains were transformed by the plasmids with lithium acetate method (Current Protocols In Molecular Biology 13.7.1). The transformed yeast were plated on triptphan-free medium (CMD-Trp medium) for selection. The plate was incubated for 48 hour at 30 ° C. Replica of the colony (transformant) which was obtained by Accutran Replica Plater (Trade name, marketed from Schleicher & Schuell Co.) were placed onto YPR plate containing raffinose for carbon source, and the plate was incubated for 14 days at 30° C. After 3 days, each colony appeared was streaked on YPR plate again. The plates were incubated for 48 hours at 30° C. Single colony was inoculated to YPD medium and was incubated for 48 hours at 30° C. Then plasmids were prepared. Insert cDNA was amplified by PCR with two kind primers which exist end side of cloning site on pSUC2 (sense strand primers were biotinylated). Biotinylated single strand of cDNAs were purified with Dynabeads (Trade name, marketed from DYNAL Co.) and the nucleotide sequences were determined. Sequencing was performed by Dye Terminator Cycle Sequencing Ready Reaction with DNA Sequencing kit (Trade name, marketed from Applied Biosystems Inc.) and sequence was determined by DNA sequencer 373 (Applied Biosystems Inc.) (All sequencing hereafter was carried out with this method).

[0114] We tried to carry out cloning of full-length cDNA which was proved to be new one according to the homology search for the obtained nucleotide sequences and deduced amino acid sequences in data base.

Cloning of a Full-Lenght cDNA and Determination of Nucleotide

[0115] A full-length cDNA was cloned using Marathon cDNA Amplification Kit (Trade name, marketed from Clontech Co.) according to 3′ RACE (Rapid Amplification of cDNA End) method. I. e., poly (A)⁺RNA in human adult brain tissue 27 mer primer OC001-F1:

[0116] 5′-GTCCTTCAGCAAAACAGTGGATTTAAA-3′

[0117] containing the deduced initiation ATG codon region based on the information of nucleotide sequence obtained by SST, was prepared. PCR was performed with the said primer and adapter primer attached in the kit. A cDNA which was amplified with clone OC001 specifically, was separated with agarose-gel electrophoresis, ligated to pT7 Blue-2 T-Vector (Trade name, marketed from Novagen Co) and transfected into E. Coli DH5 a to prepare the plasmid. Nucleotide sequences of 5′-end were determined, and the existence of nucleotide sequence OC001 SST cDNA was confirmed. Nucleotide sequence of full-length OC001 SST cDNA was determined and then sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 3 was obtained. An open reading frame was determined and deduced amino acid sequence and nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 2, 4 and 5, respectively, were obtained.

[0118] It was indicated from the results of homology search for the public database of the nucleic acid sequences by using BLASTN and FASTA, and for the public database of the amino acid sequences by using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA, that there was no sequence identical to the polypeptide sequence and the nucleotide sequence of OC001 of the present invention. In addition, the polypeptide of the present invention was expected to possess the transmembrane region at C-terminal and to be GPI anchor type by hydrophobisity analysis of the obtained amino acid sequence. From these results, it was proved that polypeptide of the present invention was new membrane protein. Further, the search using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA revealed a significant homology between clone OC001 (region of 12th˜344th amino acid in SEQ ID NO. 1) and neurotrimin [Rattus norvegicus] (region of 9th˜344th amino acid of Genbank Accession U16845) and opioid-binding cell adhesion molecule [Homo sapiens] (region of 9th˜345th amino acid of Genbank Accession L34774). Based on these homologies, clone OC001 and nervous cell adhesion molecule family including neurotrimin and opioid-binding cell adhesion molecule were expected to share at least some activity.

[0119] In Example relating to clone OM237 of the present invention, the same procedure as in Example of OC001 was used except for the following points. Cloning of a full-length cDNA and determination of nucleotide

[0120] A full-length cDNA was cloned by the same procedure as OC001 using Marathon cDNA Amplification Kit (Trade name, marketed from Clontech Co.) according to 3′RACE. A double-strand cDNA was prepaed from RNA derived from each clone, i. e., poly(A)⁺RNA of human adult brain tissue. 27 mer primer OM237-F1:

[0121] 5′-CCAGAAAGCACAGCCCTGATTCTGCGT-3′

[0122] containing the deduced initiation ATG codon region based on the information of nucleotide sequence obtained by SST, was prepared. PCR was performed with the said primer and adapter primer attached in the kit. A cDNA which was amplified with clone OM237 specifically, was recloned by the same method as OC001 to determine full necleotide sequence and obtain the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 8. An open reading frame was determined and deduced amino acid sequence and nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 6 and 7, respectively, were obtained.

[0123] It was indicated from the results of homology search for the public database of the nucleic acid sequences by using BLASTN and FASTA, and for the public database of the amino acid sequences by using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA, that there was no sequence identical to the polypeptide sequence and the nucleotide sequence of OM237 of the present invention. In addition, the polypeptide of the present invention was expected to possess the transmembrane region by hydrophobisity analysis of the obtained amino acid sequence. From these results, it was proved that polypeptide of the present invention was new membrane protein.

[0124] In Example relating to clone OA004b of the present invention, the same procedure as in Example of OC001 was used except for the following points.

Prepparation of Poly(A)⁺RNA

[0125] Total RNA was prepared from human glioblastoma cell line T98G (ATCC No. CRL-1690) by TRIzol reagent (Trade Mark, marketed from GIBCOBRL Co.). Poly(A)⁺RNA was purified from total RNA by mRNA Purification Kit (Trade name, marketed from Pharmacia Co.).

Cloning of a Full-Length cDNA and Detemination of Amino Acid Sequnce

[0126] A full-length cDNA was cloned by GENETRAPPER cDNA Positive Selection System (GIBCOBRL Co.). First, dT-primed cDNA library was prepared using plasmid pSPORT1 (GIBCOBRL Co.) as a vector from poly(A) ⁺RNA of human glioblastoma cell line T98G by Super Script Plasmid System for cDNA Synthesis and Plasmid Cloning (Trade name, marketed from GIBCOBRL Co.). After preparing 27mer biotinylated primer OA004-F1:

[0127] 5′-biotin-ATGCACATCTTCMGCATGCTCAG-3′,

[0128] based on the information of nucleotide sequence obtained by SST, plasmid hybridized specifically with the biotinylated primer were recovered from the cDNA library according to the method of Gene Trapper Kit and then transfected into E. Coli DH10B. Colony hybridization with OA004 SST cDNA which was labeled with ³²P-dCTP, as a probe, was performed by using Random Primer DNA Labeling kit (Trade name, marketed from Takara-Shuzo Co.) according to known method to isolate the positive clone and to prepare the plasmid. Full Nucleotide sequences was determined, and then sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 11, which was named as OA004b, was obtained. An open reading frame was determined and deduced amino acid sequence and nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 9 and 10, respectively, were obtained.

[0129] It was indicated from the results of homology search for the public database of the nucleic acid sequences by using BLASTN and FASTA, and for the public database of the amino acid sequences by using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA, that there was no sequence identical to the polypeptide sequence and the nucleotide sequence of OA004b of the present invention. In addition, the polypeptide of the present invention was expected to possess the transmembrane region by hydrophobisity analysis of the obtained amino acid sequence. From these results, it was proved that polypeptide of the present invention was new membrane protein. However, the search using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA revealed a significant homology between clone OA004b (region of 171st˜311st amino acid in SEQ ID NO. 9) and Hypothetical 52.8 kD protein [Caenorhabdtis elegans] (region of 299th˜453rd amino acid of Swiss Prot Accession YJ95_CAEEL), and between OA004b (region of 194th˜277th amino acid in SEQ ID NO. 9) and presenilin-2 [Homo sapiens] (region of 340th˜416th amino acid of Genbank Accession A56993). Based on these homologies, clone OA004b and presenilin family were expected to share at least some activity.

[0130] In Example relating to clone OAF075b of the present invention, the same procedure as in Example of OC001 was used except for the following points.

Preparation of Poly(A)⁺RNA

[0131] Total RNA was prepared from human bone marrow stroma cell line HAS303 (provided from Prof. Keisuke Sotoyama, Dr. Makoto Aizawa, First Medicine, Tokyo Medical College) by TRIzol reagent (Trade Mark, marketed from GIBCOBRL Co.). Poly(A)⁺RNA was purified from the total RNA by mRNA Purification Kit (Trade name, marketed from Pharmacia Co.).

Cloning of a Full-Length cDNA and Detemination of Amino Acid Sequnce

[0132] A full-length cDNA was cloned by the same procedure as OC001 using Marathon cDNA Amplification Kit (Trade name, marketed from Clontech Co.) according to 3′RACE. A double-strand cDNA was prepaed from RNA derived from each clone, i. e., poly(A)⁺RNA of HAS303. 27 mer primer OAF075-F1:

[0133]5′-CCCCGGGGACATGAGGTGGATACTGTT-3′

[0134] containing the deduced initiation ATG codon region based on the information of nucleotide sequence obtained by SST, was prepared. PCR was performed with the said primer and adapter primer attached in the kit. A cDNA which was amplified with clone OAF075B specifically, was recloned by the same method as OC001 to determine full necleotide sequence and obtain the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 14, which was named as OAF075b. An open reading frame was determined and deduced amino acid sequence and nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 12 and 13, respectively, were obtained.

[0135] It was indicated from the results of homology search for the public database of the nucleic acid sequences by using BLASTN and FASTA, and for the public database of the amino acid sequences by using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA, that there was no sequence identical to the polypeptide sequence and the nucleotide sequence of OAF075b of the present invention. In addition, the polypeptides of the present invention was expected to possess no transmembrane region by hydrophobisity analysis of the obtained amino acid sequences. From these results, it was proved that polypeptide of the present invention was new secretory protein. Further, the search using BLASTX, BLASTP and FASTA revealed a significant homology between clone OAF075b (region of 1st˜359th amino acid in SEQ ID NO. 12) and preprocarboxypeptidase A2 [Homo sapiens] (region of 1 st˜355th amino acid of Genbank Accession U19977). Based on these homologies, clone OAF075b and preprocarboxypeptidase A2 [Homo sapiens] were expected to share at least some activity.

1 19 1 1032 DNA Homo sapiens 1 atgaaaacca tccagccaaa aatgcacaat tctatctctt gggcaatctt cacggggctg 60 gctgctctgt gtctcttcca aggagtgccc gtgcgcagcg gagatgccac cttccccaaa 120 gctatggaca acgtgacggt ccggcagggg gagagcgcca ccctcaggtg cactattgac 180 aaccgggtca cccgggtggc ctggctaaac cgcagcacca tcctctatgc tgggaatgac 240 aagtggtgcc tggatcctcg cgtggtcctt ctgagcaaca cccaaacgca gtacagcatc 300 gagatccaga acgtggatgt gtatgacgag ggcccttaca cctgctcggt gcagacagac 360 aaccacccaa agacctctag ggtccacctc attgtgcaag tatctcccaa aattgtagag 420 atttcttcag atatctccat taatgaaggg aacaatatta gcctcacctg catagcaact 480 ggtagaccag agcctacggt tacttggaga cacatctctc ccaaagcggt tggctttgtg 540 agtgaagacg aatacttgga aattcagggc atcacccggg agcagtcagg ggactacgag 600 tgcagtgcct ccaatgacgt ggccgcgccc gtggtacgga gagtaaaggt caccgtgaac 660 tatccaccat acatttcaga agccaagggt acaggtgtcc ccgtgggaca aaaggggaca 720 ctgcagtgtg aagcctcagc agtcccctca gcagaattcc agtggtacaa ggatgacaaa 780 agactgattg aaggaaagaa aggggtgaaa gtggaaaaca gacctttcct ctcaaaactc 840 atcttcttca atgtctctga acatgactat gggaactaca cttgcgtggc ctccaacaag 900 ctgggccaca ccaatgccag catcatgcta tttggtccag gcgccgtcag cgaggtgagc 960 aacggcacgt cgaggagggc aggctgcgtc tggctgctgc ctcttctggt cttgcacctg 1020 cttctcaaat tt 1032 2 1693 DNA Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OC001 derived from human brain 2 gtccttcagc aaaacagtgg atttaaatct ccttgcacaa gcttgagagc aacacaatct 60 atcaggaaag aaagaaagaa aaaaaaccga acctgacaaa aaagaagaaa aagaagaaga 120 aaaaaaatc atg aaa acc atc cag cca aaa atg cac aat tct atc tct tgg 171 Met Lys Thr Ile Gln Pro Lys Met His Asn Ser Ile Ser Trp -25 -20 -15 gca atc ttc acg ggg ctg gct gct ctg tgt ctc ttc caa gga gtg ccc 219 Ala Ile Phe Thr Gly Leu Ala Ala Leu Cys Leu Phe Gln Gly Val Pro -10 -5 -1 1 gtg cgc agc gga gat gcc acc ttc ccc aaa gct atg gac aac gtg acg 267 Val Arg Ser Gly Asp Ala Thr Phe Pro Lys Ala Met Asp Asn Val Thr 5 10 15 gtc cgg cag ggg gag agc gcc acc ctc agg tgc act att gac aac cgg 315 Val Arg Gln Gly Glu Ser Ala Thr Leu Arg Cys Thr Ile Asp Asn Arg 20 25 30 gtc acc cgg gtg gcc tgg cta aac cgc agc acc atc ctc tat gct ggg 363 Val Thr Arg Val Ala Trp Leu Asn Arg Ser Thr Ile Leu Tyr Ala Gly 35 40 45 50 aat gac aag tgg tgc ctg gat cct cgc gtg gtc ctt ctg agc aac acc 411 Asn Asp Lys Trp Cys Leu Asp Pro Arg Val Val Leu Leu Ser Asn Thr 55 60 65 caa acg cag tac agc atc gag atc cag aac gtg gat gtg tat gac gag 459 Gln Thr Gln Tyr Ser Ile Glu Ile Gln Asn Val Asp Val Tyr Asp Glu 70 75 80 ggc cct tac acc tgc tcg gtg cag aca gac aac cac cca aag acc tct 507 Gly Pro Tyr Thr Cys Ser Val Gln Thr Asp Asn His Pro Lys Thr Ser 85 90 95 agg gtc cac ctc att gtg caa gta tct ccc aaa att gta gag att tct 555 Arg Val His Leu Ile Val Gln Val Ser Pro Lys Ile Val Glu Ile Ser 100 105 110 tca gat atc tcc att aat gaa ggg aac aat att agc ctc acc tgc ata 603 Ser Asp Ile Ser Ile Asn Glu Gly Asn Asn Ile Ser Leu Thr Cys Ile 115 120 125 130 gca act ggt aga cca gag cct acg gtt act tgg aga cac atc tct ccc 651 Ala Thr Gly Arg Pro Glu Pro Thr Val Thr Trp Arg His Ile Ser Pro 135 140 145 aaa gcg gtt ggc ttt gtg agt gaa gac gaa tac ttg gaa att cag ggc 699 Lys Ala Val Gly Phe Val Ser Glu Asp Glu Tyr Leu Glu Ile Gln Gly 150 155 160 atc acc cgg gag cag tca ggg gac tac gag tgc agt gcc tcc aat gac 747 Ile Thr Arg Glu Gln Ser Gly Asp Tyr Glu Cys Ser Ala Ser Asn Asp 165 170 175 gtg gcc gcg ccc gtg gta cgg aga gta aag gtc acc gtg aac tat cca 795 Val Ala Ala Pro Val Val Arg Arg Val Lys Val Thr Val Asn Tyr Pro 180 185 190 cca tac att tca gaa gcc aag ggt aca ggt gtc ccc gtg gga caa aag 843 Pro Tyr Ile Ser Glu Ala Lys Gly Thr Gly Val Pro Val Gly Gln Lys 195 200 205 210 ggg aca ctg cag tgt gaa gcc tca gca gtc ccc tca gca gaa ttc cag 891 Gly Thr Leu Gln Cys Glu Ala Ser Ala Val Pro Ser Ala Glu Phe Gln 215 220 225 tgg tac aag gat gac aaa aga ctg att gaa gga aag aaa ggg gtg aaa 939 Trp Tyr Lys Asp Asp Lys Arg Leu Ile Glu Gly Lys Lys Gly Val Lys 230 235 240 gtg gaa aac aga cct ttc ctc tca aaa ctc atc ttc ttc aat gtc tct 987 Val Glu Asn Arg Pro Phe Leu Ser Lys Leu Ile Phe Phe Asn Val Ser 245 250 255 gaa cat gac tat ggg aac tac act tgc gtg gcc tcc aac aag ctg ggc 1035 Glu His Asp Tyr Gly Asn Tyr Thr Cys Val Ala Ser Asn Lys Leu Gly 260 265 270 cac acc aat gcc agc atc atg cta ttt ggt cca ggc gcc gtc agc gag 1083 His Thr Asn Ala Ser Ile Met Leu Phe Gly Pro Gly Ala Val Ser Glu 275 280 285 290 gtg agc aac ggc acg tcg agg agg gca ggc tgc gtc tgg ctg ctg cct 1131 Val Ser Asn Gly Thr Ser Arg Arg Ala Gly Cys Val Trp Leu Leu Pro 295 300 305 ctt ctg gtc ttg cac ctg ctt ctc aaa ttt tgatgtgagt gccacttccc 1181 Leu Leu Val Leu His Leu Leu Leu Lys Phe 310 315 cacccgggaa aggctgccgc caccaccacc accaacacaa cagcaatggc aacaccgaca 1241 gcaaccaatc agatatatac aaatgaaatt agaagaaaca cagcctcatg ggacagaaat 1301 ttgagggagg ggaacaaaga atactttggg gggaaaaaag ttttaaaaaa gaaattgaaa 1361 attgccttgc agatatttag gtacaatgga gttttctttt cccaaacggg aagaacacag 1421 cacacccggc ttggacccac tgcaagctgc atcgtgcaac ctctttggtg ccagtgtggg 1481 caagggctca gcctctctgc ccacagagtg cccccacgtg gaacattctg gagctggcca 1541 tcccaaattc aatcagtcca tagagacgaa cagaatgaga ccttccggcc caagcgtggc 1601 gctgcgggca ctttggtaga ctgtgccacc acggcgtgtg ttgtgaaacg tgaaataaaa 1661 agagcaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aa 1693 3 344 PRT Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OC001 derived from human brain 3 Met Lys Thr Ile Gln Pro Lys Met His Asn Ser Ile Ser Trp Ala Ile -25 -20 -15 Phe Thr Gly Leu Ala Ala Leu Cys Leu Phe Gln Gly Val Pro Val Arg -10 -5 -1 1 Ser Gly Asp Ala Thr Phe Pro Lys Ala Met Asp Asn Val Thr Val Arg 5 10 15 20 Gln Gly Glu Ser Ala Thr Leu Arg Cys Thr Ile Asp Asn Arg Val Thr 25 30 35 Arg Val Ala Trp Leu Asn Arg Ser Thr Ile Leu Tyr Ala Gly Asn Asp 40 45 50 Lys Trp Cys Leu Asp Pro Arg Val Val Leu Leu Ser Asn Thr Gln Thr 55 60 65 Gln Tyr Ser Ile Glu Ile Gln Asn Val Asp Val Tyr Asp Glu Gly Pro 70 75 80 Tyr Thr Cys Ser Val Gln Thr Asp Asn His Pro Lys Thr Ser Arg Val 85 90 95 100 His Leu Ile Val Gln Val Ser Pro Lys Ile Val Glu Ile Ser Ser Asp 105 110 115 Ile Ser Ile Asn Glu Gly Asn Asn Ile Ser Leu Thr Cys Ile Ala Thr 120 125 130 Gly Arg Pro Glu Pro Thr Val Thr Trp Arg His Ile Ser Pro Lys Ala 135 140 145 Val Gly Phe Val Ser Glu Asp Glu Tyr Leu Glu Ile Gln Gly Ile Thr 150 155 160 Arg Glu Gln Ser Gly Asp Tyr Glu Cys Ser Ala Ser Asn Asp Val Ala 165 170 175 180 Ala Pro Val Val Arg Arg Val Lys Val Thr Val Asn Tyr Pro Pro Tyr 185 190 195 Ile Ser Glu Ala Lys Gly Thr Gly Val Pro Val Gly Gln Lys Gly Thr 200 205 210 Leu Gln Cys Glu Ala Ser Ala Val Pro Ser Ala Glu Phe Gln Trp Tyr 215 220 225 Lys Asp Asp Lys Arg Leu Ile Glu Gly Lys Lys Gly Val Lys Val Glu 230 235 240 Asn Arg Pro Phe Leu Ser Lys Leu Ile Phe Phe Asn Val Ser Glu His 245 250 255 260 Asp Tyr Gly Asn Tyr Thr Cys Val Ala Ser Asn Lys Leu Gly His Thr 265 270 275 Asn Ala Ser Ile Met Leu Phe Gly Pro Gly Ala Val Ser Glu Val Ser 280 285 290 Asn Gly Thr Ser Arg Arg Ala Gly Cys Val Trp Leu Leu Pro Leu Leu 295 300 305 Val Leu His Leu Leu Leu Lys Phe 310 315 4 313 PRT Homo sapiens 4 Arg Ser Gly Asp Ala Thr Phe Pro Lys Ala Met Asp Asn Val Thr Val 1 5 10 15 Arg Gln Gly Glu Ser Ala Thr Leu Arg Cys Thr Ile Asp Asn Arg Val 20 25 30 Thr Arg Val Ala Trp Leu Asn Arg Ser Thr Ile Leu Tyr Ala Gly Asn 35 40 45 Asp Lys Trp Cys Leu Asp Pro Arg Val Val Leu Leu Ser Asn Thr Gln 50 55 60 Thr Gln Tyr Ser Ile Glu Ile Gln Asn Val Asp Val Tyr Asp Glu Gly 65 70 75 80 Pro Tyr Thr Cys Ser Val Gln Thr Asp Asn His Pro Lys Thr Ser Arg 85 90 95 Val His Leu Ile Val Gln Val Ser Pro Lys Ile Val Glu Ile Ser Ser 100 105 110 Asp Ile Ser Ile Asn Glu Gly Asn Asn Ile Ser Leu Thr Cys Ile Ala 115 120 125 Thr Gly Arg Pro Glu Pro Thr Val Thr Trp Arg His Ile Ser Pro Lys 130 135 140 Ala Val Gly Phe Val Ser Glu Asp Glu Tyr Leu Glu Ile Gln Gly Ile 145 150 155 160 Thr Arg Glu Gln Ser Gly Asp Tyr Glu Cys Ser Ala Ser Asn Asp Val 165 170 175 Ala Ala Pro Val Val Arg Arg Val Lys Val Thr Val Asn Tyr Pro Pro 180 185 190 Tyr Ile Ser Glu Ala Lys Gly Thr Gly Val Pro Val Gly Gln Lys Gly 195 200 205 Thr Leu Gln Cys Glu Ala Ser Ala Val Pro Ser Ala Glu Phe Gln Trp 210 215 220 Tyr Lys Asp Asp Lys Arg Leu Ile Glu Gly Lys Lys Gly Val Lys Val 225 230 235 240 Glu Asn Arg Pro Phe Leu Ser Lys Leu Ile Phe Phe Asn Val Ser Glu 245 250 255 His Asp Tyr Gly Asn Tyr Thr Cys Val Ala Ser Asn Lys Leu Gly His 260 265 270 Thr Asn Ala Ser Ile Met Leu Phe Gly Pro Gly Ala Val Ser Glu Val 275 280 285 Ser Asn Gly Thr Ser Arg Arg Ala Gly Cys Val Trp Leu Leu Pro Leu 290 295 300 Leu Val Leu His Leu Leu Leu Lys Phe 305 310 5 939 DNA Homo sapiens 5 cgcagcggag atgccacctt ccccaaagct atggacaacg tgacggtccg gcagggggag 60 agcgccaccc tcaggtgcac tattgacaac cgggtcaccc gggtggcctg gctaaaccgc 120 agcaccatcc tctatgctgg gaatgacaag tggtgcctgg atcctcgcgt ggtccttctg 180 agcaacaccc aaacgcagta cagcatcgag atccagaacg tggatgtgta tgacgagggc 240 ccttacacct gctcggtgca gacagacaac cacccaaaga cctctagggt ccacctcatt 300 gtgcaagtat ctcccaaaat tgtagagatt tcttcagata tctccattaa tgaagggaac 360 aatattagcc tcacctgcat agcaactggt agaccagagc ctacggttac ttggagacac 420 atctctccca aagcggttgg ctttgtgagt gaagacgaat acttggaaat tcagggcatc 480 acccgggagc agtcagggga ctacgagtgc agtgcctcca atgacgtggc cgcgcccgtg 540 gtacggagag taaaggtcac cgtgaactat ccaccataca tttcagaagc caagggtaca 600 ggtgtccccg tgggacaaaa ggggacactg cagtgtgaag cctcagcagt cccctcagca 660 gaattccagt ggtacaagga tgacaaaaga ctgattgaag gaaagaaagg ggtgaaagtg 720 gaaaacagac ctttcctctc aaaactcatc ttcttcaatg tctctgaaca tgactatggg 780 aactacactt gcgtggcctc caacaagctg ggccacacca atgccagcat catgctattt 840 ggtccaggcg ccgtcagcga ggtgagcaac ggcacgtcga ggagggcagg ctgcgtctgg 900 ctgctgcctc ttctggtctt gcacctgctt ctcaaattt 939 6 1434 DNA Homo sapiens 6 atgtttaaat ttcatcaaat gaaacatatt tttgaaatac ttgataaaat gagatgcctg 60 agaaaacgtt ctacagtgtc attcttggga gttcttgtca tttttctcct ttttatgaac 120 ttgtacattg aagatagcta tgttctggaa ggagacaaac aacttataag ggaaacatcc 180 acacatcaac tgaattcaga acgctatgtt catactttca aggatttatc taatttctca 240 ggagccataa atgtcaccta tcgctaccta gctgccacac ctttacaaag aaagcggtat 300 cttacaattg gactttcttc agtaaagcga aaaaaaggaa actatttact tgagacaatt 360 aagtcaattt ttgagcaatc cagctatgaa gagctgaagg aaatttcagt ggtgattcac 420 ctagcagact ttaattcttc ctggcgtgat gccatggtcc aggatattac acagaaattt 480 gcgcaccata ttattgcagg aagattaatg gttatacatg ctccagagga gtattaccca 540 atcctagatg gccttaaaag aaattacaat gatccagaag atagagtcaa atttcgttcc 600 aagcaaaatg tagattatac ttttctgctt aatttttgtg ccaatacttc agactattat 660 gtaatgcttg aagatgatgt tcgatgttca aaaaatttct taactgccat caagaaagtc 720 attgcatccc tagaaggaac ttactgggta actcttgaat tctctaagct tggctacatt 780 ggtaaactct atcattctca tgatctccca cgtttggccc attttttatt aatgttttat 840 caagaaatgc cttgtgattg gctattgact catttccgtg gtctgttggc tcagaaaaat 900 gtgatccgtt ttaaaccatc tctctttcag cacatgggct attattcatc atacaaaggg 960 acggagaata agctgaagga tgatgatttt gaagaggagt catttgacat tcctgataac 1020 ccccctgcaa gtctgtacac caacatgaat gtgtttgaaa attatgaagc aagcaaggct 1080 tacagtagtg ttgatgagta cttttggggg aaaccacctt caacaggaga tgtttttgtg 1140 attgtatttg aaaatccaat tataataaaa aaaattaaag taaatactgg aacagaagat 1200 cggcaaaatg atattttgca tcatggagcc ctagatgttg gggaaaacgt tatgcctagc 1260 aaacaaaggg gacaatgttc tacttactta agactaggag aattcaaaaa tggaaacttt 1320 gaaatgtcag gtgtaaatca aaaaattcca tttgatatac attgtatgag gatatatgtc 1380 accaaaacac aaaaggaatg gctaattatt aggagtatta gcatttggac ttct 1434 7 2131 DNA Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OM237 derived from human brain 7 ccagaaagca cagccctgat tctgcgtgag aaaggctatc tctacagaaa ctaaaacggt 60 atcaacggtt tctgtacagc acagattatg acagcgtctt tcttaagaag aga atg 116 Met 1 ttt aaa ttt cat caa atg aaa cat att ttt gaa ata ctt gat aaa atg 164 Phe Lys Phe His Gln Met Lys His Ile Phe Glu Ile Leu Asp Lys Met 5 10 15 aga tgc ctg aga aaa cgt tct aca gtg tca ttc ttg gga gtt ctt gtc 212 Arg Cys Leu Arg Lys Arg Ser Thr Val Ser Phe Leu Gly Val Leu Val 20 25 30 att ttt ctc ctt ttt atg aac ttg tac att gaa gat agc tat gtt ctg 260 Ile Phe Leu Leu Phe Met Asn Leu Tyr Ile Glu Asp Ser Tyr Val Leu 35 40 45 gaa gga gac aaa caa ctt ata agg gaa aca tcc aca cat caa ctg aat 308 Glu Gly Asp Lys Gln Leu Ile Arg Glu Thr Ser Thr His Gln Leu Asn 50 55 60 65 tca gaa cgc tat gtt cat act ttc aag gat tta tct aat ttc tca gga 356 Ser Glu Arg Tyr Val His Thr Phe Lys Asp Leu Ser Asn Phe Ser Gly 70 75 80 gcc ata aat gtc acc tat cgc tac cta gct gcc aca cct tta caa aga 404 Ala Ile Asn Val Thr Tyr Arg Tyr Leu Ala Ala Thr Pro Leu Gln Arg 85 90 95 aag cgg tat ctt aca att gga ctt tct tca gta aag cga aaa aaa gga 452 Lys Arg Tyr Leu Thr Ile Gly Leu Ser Ser Val Lys Arg Lys Lys Gly 100 105 110 aac tat tta ctt gag aca att aag tca att ttt gag caa tcc agc tat 500 Asn Tyr Leu Leu Glu Thr Ile Lys Ser Ile Phe Glu Gln Ser Ser Tyr 115 120 125 gaa gag ctg aag gaa att tca gtg gtg att cac cta gca gac ttt aat 548 Glu Glu Leu Lys Glu Ile Ser Val Val Ile His Leu Ala Asp Phe Asn 130 135 140 145 tct tcc tgg cgt gat gcc atg gtc cag gat att aca cag aaa ttt gcg 596 Ser Ser Trp Arg Asp Ala Met Val Gln Asp Ile Thr Gln Lys Phe Ala 150 155 160 cac cat att att gca gga aga tta atg gtt ata cat gct cca gag gag 644 His His Ile Ile Ala Gly Arg Leu Met Val Ile His Ala Pro Glu Glu 165 170 175 tat tac cca atc cta gat ggc ctt aaa aga aat tac aat gat cca gaa 692 Tyr Tyr Pro Ile Leu Asp Gly Leu Lys Arg Asn Tyr Asn Asp Pro Glu 180 185 190 gat aga gtc aaa ttt cgt tcc aag caa aat gta gat tat act ttt ctg 740 Asp Arg Val Lys Phe Arg Ser Lys Gln Asn Val Asp Tyr Thr Phe Leu 195 200 205 ctt aat ttt tgt gcc aat act tca gac tat tat gta atg ctt gaa gat 788 Leu Asn Phe Cys Ala Asn Thr Ser Asp Tyr Tyr Val Met Leu Glu Asp 210 215 220 225 gat gtt cga tgt tca aaa aat ttc tta act gcc atc aag aaa gtc att 836 Asp Val Arg Cys Ser Lys Asn Phe Leu Thr Ala Ile Lys Lys Val Ile 230 235 240 gca tcc cta gaa gga act tac tgg gta act ctt gaa ttc tct aag ctt 884 Ala Ser Leu Glu Gly Thr Tyr Trp Val Thr Leu Glu Phe Ser Lys Leu 245 250 255 ggc tac att ggt aaa ctc tat cat tct cat gat ctc cca cgt ttg gcc 932 Gly Tyr Ile Gly Lys Leu Tyr His Ser His Asp Leu Pro Arg Leu Ala 260 265 270 cat ttt tta tta atg ttt tat caa gaa atg cct tgt gat tgg cta ttg 980 His Phe Leu Leu Met Phe Tyr Gln Glu Met Pro Cys Asp Trp Leu Leu 275 280 285 act cat ttc cgt ggt ctg ttg gct cag aaa aat gtg atc cgt ttt aaa 1028 Thr His Phe Arg Gly Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Asn Val Ile Arg Phe Lys 290 295 300 305 cca tct ctc ttt cag cac atg ggc tat tat tca tca tac aaa ggg acg 1076 Pro Ser Leu Phe Gln His Met Gly Tyr Tyr Ser Ser Tyr Lys Gly Thr 310 315 320 gag aat aag ctg aag gat gat gat ttt gaa gag gag tca ttt gac att 1124 Glu Asn Lys Leu Lys Asp Asp Asp Phe Glu Glu Glu Ser Phe Asp Ile 325 330 335 cct gat aac ccc cct gca agt ctg tac acc aac atg aat gtg ttt gaa 1172 Pro Asp Asn Pro Pro Ala Ser Leu Tyr Thr Asn Met Asn Val Phe Glu 340 345 350 aat tat gaa gca agc aag gct tac agt agt gtt gat gag tac ttt tgg 1220 Asn Tyr Glu Ala Ser Lys Ala Tyr Ser Ser Val Asp Glu Tyr Phe Trp 355 360 365 ggg aaa cca cct tca aca gga gat gtt ttt gtg att gta ttt gaa aat 1268 Gly Lys Pro Pro Ser Thr Gly Asp Val Phe Val Ile Val Phe Glu Asn 370 375 380 385 cca att ata ata aaa aaa att aaa gta aat act gga aca gaa gat cgg 1316 Pro Ile Ile Ile Lys Lys Ile Lys Val Asn Thr Gly Thr Glu Asp Arg 390 395 400 caa aat gat att ttg cat cat gga gcc cta gat gtt ggg gaa aac gtt 1364 Gln Asn Asp Ile Leu His His Gly Ala Leu Asp Val Gly Glu Asn Val 405 410 415 atg cct agc aaa caa agg gga caa tgt tct act tac tta aga cta gga 1412 Met Pro Ser Lys Gln Arg Gly Gln Cys Ser Thr Tyr Leu Arg Leu Gly 420 425 430 gaa ttc aaa aat gga aac ttt gaa atg tca ggt gta aat caa aaa att 1460 Glu Phe Lys Asn Gly Asn Phe Glu Met Ser Gly Val Asn Gln Lys Ile 435 440 445 cca ttt gat ata cat tgt atg agg ata tat gtc acc aaa aca caa aag 1508 Pro Phe Asp Ile His Cys Met Arg Ile Tyr Val Thr Lys Thr Gln Lys 450 455 460 465 gaa tgg cta att att agg agt att agc att tgg act tct tagccaatta 1557 Glu Trp Leu Ile Ile Arg Ser Ile Ser Ile Trp Thr Ser 470 475 aatcagtatg ttcagtttct gaagcagttc ttcctgcttc gtcttttgct acctttgtct 1617 tttggaggga aagcaatgga tgggatatgt taaaagaaac attaattaca ttggcagttt 1677 tcatttatac attgttgaca taattttact cttaatacac acttgtattt attttaacgt 1737 ctgaagttga atatcagtct atagctaatg ctactttcat ttatattttt aaatgttctt 1797 agttttaaaa tttcaactga ttgtcgaaag ggtaatatga aagattttaa atgaaaaaaa 1857 tttgttggat gatgattttt gaaaaatagt caccaactgt atatacttcc tcaagaactg 1917 ataattcatt atatcatcag atagctttta ttaagcatct gtgggaatat acagttgggt 1977 ggaatgataa tctggtttat tttttctgta aacttaagtt tccgttgact tctgtacatc 2037 tacaatgaat acctcctcat agaagtggtg tctttacata attttttgtg taggtgacac 2097 tatggaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaa 2131 8 478 PRT Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OM237 derived from human brain 8 Met Phe Lys Phe His Gln Met Lys His Ile Phe Glu Ile Leu Asp Lys 1 5 10 15 Met Arg Cys Leu Arg Lys Arg Ser Thr Val Ser Phe Leu Gly Val Leu 20 25 30 Val Ile Phe Leu Leu Phe Met Asn Leu Tyr Ile Glu Asp Ser Tyr Val 35 40 45 Leu Glu Gly Asp Lys Gln Leu Ile Arg Glu Thr Ser Thr His Gln Leu 50 55 60 Asn Ser Glu Arg Tyr Val His Thr Phe Lys Asp Leu Ser Asn Phe Ser 65 70 75 80 Gly Ala Ile Asn Val Thr Tyr Arg Tyr Leu Ala Ala Thr Pro Leu Gln 85 90 95 Arg Lys Arg Tyr Leu Thr Ile Gly Leu Ser Ser Val Lys Arg Lys Lys 100 105 110 Gly Asn Tyr Leu Leu Glu Thr Ile Lys Ser Ile Phe Glu Gln Ser Ser 115 120 125 Tyr Glu Glu Leu Lys Glu Ile Ser Val Val Ile His Leu Ala Asp Phe 130 135 140 Asn Ser Ser Trp Arg Asp Ala Met Val Gln Asp Ile Thr Gln Lys Phe 145 150 155 160 Ala His His Ile Ile Ala Gly Arg Leu Met Val Ile His Ala Pro Glu 165 170 175 Glu Tyr Tyr Pro Ile Leu Asp Gly Leu Lys Arg Asn Tyr Asn Asp Pro 180 185 190 Glu Asp Arg Val Lys Phe Arg Ser Lys Gln Asn Val Asp Tyr Thr Phe 195 200 205 Leu Leu Asn Phe Cys Ala Asn Thr Ser Asp Tyr Tyr Val Met Leu Glu 210 215 220 Asp Asp Val Arg Cys Ser Lys Asn Phe Leu Thr Ala Ile Lys Lys Val 225 230 235 240 Ile Ala Ser Leu Glu Gly Thr Tyr Trp Val Thr Leu Glu Phe Ser Lys 245 250 255 Leu Gly Tyr Ile Gly Lys Leu Tyr His Ser His Asp Leu Pro Arg Leu 260 265 270 Ala His Phe Leu Leu Met Phe Tyr Gln Glu Met Pro Cys Asp Trp Leu 275 280 285 Leu Thr His Phe Arg Gly Leu Leu Ala Gln Lys Asn Val Ile Arg Phe 290 295 300 Lys Pro Ser Leu Phe Gln His Met Gly Tyr Tyr Ser Ser Tyr Lys Gly 305 310 315 320 Thr Glu Asn Lys Leu Lys Asp Asp Asp Phe Glu Glu Glu Ser Phe Asp 325 330 335 Ile Pro Asp Asn Pro Pro Ala Ser Leu Tyr Thr Asn Met Asn Val Phe 340 345 350 Glu Asn Tyr Glu Ala Ser Lys Ala Tyr Ser Ser Val Asp Glu Tyr Phe 355 360 365 Trp Gly Lys Pro Pro Ser Thr Gly Asp Val Phe Val Ile Val Phe Glu 370 375 380 Asn Pro Ile Ile Ile Lys Lys Ile Lys Val Asn Thr Gly Thr Glu Asp 385 390 395 400 Arg Gln Asn Asp Ile Leu His His Gly Ala Leu Asp Val Gly Glu Asn 405 410 415 Val Met Pro Ser Lys Gln Arg Gly Gln Cys Ser Thr Tyr Leu Arg Leu 420 425 430 Gly Glu Phe Lys Asn Gly Asn Phe Glu Met Ser Gly Val Asn Gln Lys 435 440 445 Ile Pro Phe Asp Ile His Cys Met Arg Ile Tyr Val Thr Lys Thr Gln 450 455 460 Lys Glu Trp Leu Ile Ile Arg Ser Ile Ser Ile Trp Thr Ser 465 470 475 9 1005 DNA Homo sapiens 9 atggactcgg ccctcagcga tccgcataac ggcagtgccg aggcaggcgg ccccaccaac 60 agcactacgc ggccgccttc cacgcccgag ggcatcgcgc tggcctacgg cagcctcctg 120 ctcatggcgc tgctgcccat cttcttcggc gccctgcgct ccgtacgctg cgcccgcggc 180 aagaatgctt cagacatgcc tgaaacaatc accagccggg atgccgcccg cttccccatc 240 atcgccagct gcacactctt ggggctctac ctctttttca aaatattctc ccaggagtac 300 atcaacctcc tgctgtccat gtatttcttc gtgctgggaa tcctggccct gtcccacacc 360 atcagcccct tcatgaataa gttttttcca gccagctttc caaatcgaca gtaccagctg 420 ctcttcacac agggttctgg ggaaaacaag gaagagatca tcaattatga atttgacacc 480 aaggacctgg tgtgcctggg cctgagcagc atcgttggcg tctggtacct gctgaggaag 540 gtatttggca ccaatgtgat ggtgacagtg gccaagtcct tcgaggcacc aataaaattg 600 gtgtttcccc aggatctgct ggagaaaggc ctcgaagcaa acaactttgc catgctggga 660 cttggagatg tcgtcattcc agggatcttc attgccttgc tgctgcgctt tgacatcagc 720 ttgaagaaga atacccacac ctacttctac accagctttg cagcctacat cttcggcctg 780 ggccttacca tcttcatcat gcacatcttc aagcatgctc agcctgccct cctatacctg 840 gtccccgcct gcatcggttt tcctgtcctg gtggcgctgg ccaagggaga agtgacagag 900 atgttcagtt atgaggagtc aaatcctaag gatccagcgg cagtgacaga atccaaagag 960 ggaacagagg catcagcatc gaaggggctg gagaagaaag agaaa 1005 10 1486 DNA Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OA004b derived from T98G cell 10 cacgtcactt cctgttgcct taggggaacg tggctttccc tgcagagccg gtgtctccgc 60 ctgcgtccct gctgcagcaa ccggagctgg agtcggatcc cgaacgcacc ctcgcc atg 119 Met 1 gac tcg gcc ctc agc gat ccg cat aac ggc agt gcc gag gca ggc ggc 167 Asp Ser Ala Leu Ser Asp Pro His Asn Gly Ser Ala Glu Ala Gly Gly 5 10 15 ccc acc aac agc act acg cgg ccg cct tcc acg ccc gag ggc atc gcg 215 Pro Thr Asn Ser Thr Thr Arg Pro Pro Ser Thr Pro Glu Gly Ile Ala 20 25 30 ctg gcc tac ggc agc ctc ctg ctc atg gcg ctg ctg ccc atc ttc ttc 263 Leu Ala Tyr Gly Ser Leu Leu Leu Met Ala Leu Leu Pro Ile Phe Phe 35 40 45 ggc gcc ctg cgc tcc gta cgc tgc gcc cgc ggc aag aat gct tca gac 311 Gly Ala Leu Arg Ser Val Arg Cys Ala Arg Gly Lys Asn Ala Ser Asp 50 55 60 65 atg cct gaa aca atc acc agc cgg gat gcc gcc cgc ttc ccc atc atc 359 Met Pro Glu Thr Ile Thr Ser Arg Asp Ala Ala Arg Phe Pro Ile Ile 70 75 80 gcc agc tgc aca ctc ttg ggg ctc tac ctc ttt ttc aaa ata ttc tcc 407 Ala Ser Cys Thr Leu Leu Gly Leu Tyr Leu Phe Phe Lys Ile Phe Ser 85 90 95 cag gag tac atc aac ctc ctg ctg tcc atg tat ttc ttc gtg ctg gga 455 Gln Glu Tyr Ile Asn Leu Leu Leu Ser Met Tyr Phe Phe Val Leu Gly 100 105 110 atc ctg gcc ctg tcc cac acc atc agc ccc ttc atg aat aag ttt ttt 503 Ile Leu Ala Leu Ser His Thr Ile Ser Pro Phe Met Asn Lys Phe Phe 115 120 125 cca gcc agc ttt cca aat cga cag tac cag ctg ctc ttc aca cag ggt 551 Pro Ala Ser Phe Pro Asn Arg Gln Tyr Gln Leu Leu Phe Thr Gln Gly 130 135 140 145 tct ggg gaa aac aag gaa gag atc atc aat tat gaa ttt gac acc aag 599 Ser Gly Glu Asn Lys Glu Glu Ile Ile Asn Tyr Glu Phe Asp Thr Lys 150 155 160 gac ctg gtg tgc ctg ggc ctg agc agc atc gtt ggc gtc tgg tac ctg 647 Asp Leu Val Cys Leu Gly Leu Ser Ser Ile Val Gly Val Trp Tyr Leu 165 170 175 ctg agg aag gta ttt ggc acc aat gtg atg gtg aca gtg gcc aag tcc 695 Leu Arg Lys Val Phe Gly Thr Asn Val Met Val Thr Val Ala Lys Ser 180 185 190 ttc gag gca cca ata aaa ttg gtg ttt ccc cag gat ctg ctg gag aaa 743 Phe Glu Ala Pro Ile Lys Leu Val Phe Pro Gln Asp Leu Leu Glu Lys 195 200 205 ggc ctc gaa gca aac aac ttt gcc atg ctg gga ctt gga gat gtc gtc 791 Gly Leu Glu Ala Asn Asn Phe Ala Met Leu Gly Leu Gly Asp Val Val 210 215 220 225 att cca ggg atc ttc att gcc ttg ctg ctg cgc ttt gac atc agc ttg 839 Ile Pro Gly Ile Phe Ile Ala Leu Leu Leu Arg Phe Asp Ile Ser Leu 230 235 240 aag aag aat acc cac acc tac ttc tac acc agc ttt gca gcc tac atc 887 Lys Lys Asn Thr His Thr Tyr Phe Tyr Thr Ser Phe Ala Ala Tyr Ile 245 250 255 ttc ggc ctg ggc ctt acc atc ttc atc atg cac atc ttc aag cat gct 935 Phe Gly Leu Gly Leu Thr Ile Phe Ile Met His Ile Phe Lys His Ala 260 265 270 cag cct gcc ctc cta tac ctg gtc ccc gcc tgc atc ggt ttt cct gtc 983 Gln Pro Ala Leu Leu Tyr Leu Val Pro Ala Cys Ile Gly Phe Pro Val 275 280 285 ctg gtg gcg ctg gcc aag gga gaa gtg aca gag atg ttc agt tat gag 1031 Leu Val Ala Leu Ala Lys Gly Glu Val Thr Glu Met Phe Ser Tyr Glu 290 295 300 305 gag tca aat cct aag gat cca gcg gca gtg aca gaa tcc aaa gag gga 1079 Glu Ser Asn Pro Lys Asp Pro Ala Ala Val Thr Glu Ser Lys Glu Gly 310 315 320 aca gag gca tca gca tcg aag ggg ctg gag aag aaa gag aaa 1121 Thr Glu Ala Ser Ala Ser Lys Gly Leu Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys 325 330 335 tgatgcggct ggtgcccgag cctctcaggg ccagaccaga cagatggggg ctgggcccac 1181 acaggcgtgc accggtagag ggcacaggag gccaagggca gctccaggac agggcagggg 1241 gcagcaggat acctccagcc aggcctctgt ggcctctgtt tccttctccc tttcttggcc 1301 ctcctctgct cctccccaca ccctgcaggc aaaagaaacc cccagcttcc cccctccccg 1361 ggagccaggt gggaaaagtg ggtgtgattt ttagattttg tattgtggac tgattttgcc 1421 tcacattaaa aactcatccc atggccaggg cgggccactg tgctcctgaa aaaaaaaaaa 1481 aaaaa 1486 11 335 PRT Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OA004b derived from T98G cell 11 Met Asp Ser Ala Leu Ser Asp Pro His Asn Gly Ser Ala Glu Ala Gly 1 5 10 15 Gly Pro Thr Asn Ser Thr Thr Arg Pro Pro Ser Thr Pro Glu Gly Ile 20 25 30 Ala Leu Ala Tyr Gly Ser Leu Leu Leu Met Ala Leu Leu Pro Ile Phe 35 40 45 Phe Gly Ala Leu Arg Ser Val Arg Cys Ala Arg Gly Lys Asn Ala Ser 50 55 60 Asp Met Pro Glu Thr Ile Thr Ser Arg Asp Ala Ala Arg Phe Pro Ile 65 70 75 80 Ile Ala Ser Cys Thr Leu Leu Gly Leu Tyr Leu Phe Phe Lys Ile Phe 85 90 95 Ser Gln Glu Tyr Ile Asn Leu Leu Leu Ser Met Tyr Phe Phe Val Leu 100 105 110 Gly Ile Leu Ala Leu Ser His Thr Ile Ser Pro Phe Met Asn Lys Phe 115 120 125 Phe Pro Ala Ser Phe Pro Asn Arg Gln Tyr Gln Leu Leu Phe Thr Gln 130 135 140 Gly Ser Gly Glu Asn Lys Glu Glu Ile Ile Asn Tyr Glu Phe Asp Thr 145 150 155 160 Lys Asp Leu Val Cys Leu Gly Leu Ser Ser Ile Val Gly Val Trp Tyr 165 170 175 Leu Leu Arg Lys Val Phe Gly Thr Asn Val Met Val Thr Val Ala Lys 180 185 190 Ser Phe Glu Ala Pro Ile Lys Leu Val Phe Pro Gln Asp Leu Leu Glu 195 200 205 Lys Gly Leu Glu Ala Asn Asn Phe Ala Met Leu Gly Leu Gly Asp Val 210 215 220 Val Ile Pro Gly Ile Phe Ile Ala Leu Leu Leu Arg Phe Asp Ile Ser 225 230 235 240 Leu Lys Lys Asn Thr His Thr Tyr Phe Tyr Thr Ser Phe Ala Ala Tyr 245 250 255 Ile Phe Gly Leu Gly Leu Thr Ile Phe Ile Met His Ile Phe Lys His 260 265 270 Ala Gln Pro Ala Leu Leu Tyr Leu Val Pro Ala Cys Ile Gly Phe Pro 275 280 285 Val Leu Val Ala Leu Ala Lys Gly Glu Val Thr Glu Met Phe Ser Tyr 290 295 300 Glu Glu Ser Asn Pro Lys Asp Pro Ala Ala Val Thr Glu Ser Lys Glu 305 310 315 320 Gly Thr Glu Ala Ser Ala Ser Lys Gly Leu Glu Lys Lys Glu Lys 325 330 335 12 1080 DNA Homo sapiens 12 atgaggtgga tactgttcat tggggccctt attgggtcca gcatctgtgg ccaagaaaaa 60 ttttttgggg accaagtttt taggattaat gtcagaaatg gagacgagat cagcaaattg 120 agtcaactag tgaattcaaa caacttgaag ctcaatttct ggaaatctcc ctcctccttc 180 aatcggcctg tggatgtcct ggtcccatct gtcagtctgc aggcatttaa atccttcctg 240 agatcccagg gcttagagta cgcagtgaca attgaggacc tgcaggccct tttagacaat 300 gaagatgatg aaatgcaaca caatgaaggg caagaacgga gcagtaataa cttcaactac 360 ggggcttacc attccctgga agctatttac cacgagatgg acaacattgc cgcagacttt 420 cctgacctgg cgaggagggt gaagattgga cattcgtttg aaaaccggcc gatgtatgta 480 ctgaagttca gcactgggaa aggcgtgagg cggccggccg tttggctgaa tgcaggcatc 540 cattcccgag agtggatctc ccaggccact gcaatctgga cggcaaggaa gattgtatct 600 gattaccaga gggatccagc tatcacctcc atcttggaga aaatggatat tttcttgttg 660 cctgtggcca atcctgatgg atatgtgtat actcaaactc aaaaccgatt atggaggaag 720 acgcggtccc gaaatcctgg aagctcctgc attggtgctg acccaaatag aagctggaac 780 gctagttttg caggaaaggg agccagcgac aacccttgct ccgaagtgta ccatggaccc 840 cacgccaatt cggaagtgga ggtgaaatca gtggtagatt tcatccaaaa acatgggaat 900 ttcaagtgct tcatcgacct gcacagctac tcgcagctgc tgatgtatcc atatgggtac 960 tcagtcaaaa aggccccaga tgccgaggaa ctcgacaagg tggcgaggct tgcggccaaa 1020 gctctggctt ctgtgtcggg cactgagtac caagtgggtc ccacctgcac cactgtctta 1080 13 3156 DNA Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OAF075b derived from human bone marrow stroma cell HAS303 13 ccccggggac atg agg tgg ata ctg ttc att ggg gcc ctt att ggg tcc 49 Met Arg Trp Ile Leu Phe Ile Gly Ala Leu Ile Gly Ser -15 -10 -5 agc atc tgt ggc caa gaa aaa ttt ttt ggg gac caa gtt ttt agg att 97 Ser Ile Cys Gly Gln Glu Lys Phe Phe Gly Asp Gln Val Phe Arg Ile -1 1 5 10 aat gtc aga aat gga gac gag atc agc aaa ttg agt caa cta gtg aat 145 Asn Val Arg Asn Gly Asp Glu Ile Ser Lys Leu Ser Gln Leu Val Asn 15 20 25 tca aac aac ttg aag ctc aat ttc tgg aaa tct ccc tcc tcc ttc aat 193 Ser Asn Asn Leu Lys Leu Asn Phe Trp Lys Ser Pro Ser Ser Phe Asn 30 35 40 45 cgg cct gtg gat gtc ctg gtc cca tct gtc agt ctg cag gca ttt aaa 241 Arg Pro Val Asp Val Leu Val Pro Ser Val Ser Leu Gln Ala Phe Lys 50 55 60 tcc ttc ctg aga tcc cag ggc tta gag tac gca gtg aca att gag gac 289 Ser Phe Leu Arg Ser Gln Gly Leu Glu Tyr Ala Val Thr Ile Glu Asp 65 70 75 ctg cag gcc ctt tta gac aat gaa gat gat gaa atg caa cac aat gaa 337 Leu Gln Ala Leu Leu Asp Asn Glu Asp Asp Glu Met Gln His Asn Glu 80 85 90 ggg caa gaa cgg agc agt aat aac ttc aac tac ggg gct tac cat tcc 385 Gly Gln Glu Arg Ser Ser Asn Asn Phe Asn Tyr Gly Ala Tyr His Ser 95 100 105 ctg gaa gct att tac cac gag atg gac aac att gcc gca gac ttt cct 433 Leu Glu Ala Ile Tyr His Glu Met Asp Asn Ile Ala Ala Asp Phe Pro 110 115 120 125 gac ctg gcg agg agg gtg aag att gga cat tcg ttt gaa aac cgg ccg 481 Asp Leu Ala Arg Arg Val Lys Ile Gly His Ser Phe Glu Asn Arg Pro 130 135 140 atg tat gta ctg aag ttc agc act ggg aaa ggc gtg agg cgg ccg gcc 529 Met Tyr Val Leu Lys Phe Ser Thr Gly Lys Gly Val Arg Arg Pro Ala 145 150 155 gtt tgg ctg aat gca ggc atc cat tcc cga gag tgg atc tcc cag gcc 577 Val Trp Leu Asn Ala Gly Ile His Ser Arg Glu Trp Ile Ser Gln Ala 160 165 170 act gca atc tgg acg gca agg aag att gta tct gat tac cag agg gat 625 Thr Ala Ile Trp Thr Ala Arg Lys Ile Val Ser Asp Tyr Gln Arg Asp 175 180 185 cca gct atc acc tcc atc ttg gag aaa atg gat att ttc ttg ttg cct 673 Pro Ala Ile Thr Ser Ile Leu Glu Lys Met Asp Ile Phe Leu Leu Pro 190 195 200 205 gtg gcc aat cct gat gga tat gtg tat act caa act caa aac cga tta 721 Val Ala Asn Pro Asp Gly Tyr Val Tyr Thr Gln Thr Gln Asn Arg Leu 210 215 220 tgg agg aag acg cgg tcc cga aat cct gga agc tcc tgc att ggt gct 769 Trp Arg Lys Thr Arg Ser Arg Asn Pro Gly Ser Ser Cys Ile Gly Ala 225 230 235 gac cca aat aga agc tgg aac gct agt ttt gca gga aag gga gcc agc 817 Asp Pro Asn Arg Ser Trp Asn Ala Ser Phe Ala Gly Lys Gly Ala Ser 240 245 250 gac aac cct tgc tcc gaa gtg tac cat gga ccc cac gcc aat tcg gaa 865 Asp Asn Pro Cys Ser Glu Val Tyr His Gly Pro His Ala Asn Ser Glu 255 260 265 gtg gag gtg aaa tca gtg gta gat ttc atc caa aaa cat ggg aat ttc 913 Val Glu Val Lys Ser Val Val Asp Phe Ile Gln Lys His Gly Asn Phe 270 275 280 285 aag tgc ttc atc gac ctg cac agc tac tcg cag ctg ctg atg tat cca 961 Lys Cys Phe Ile Asp Leu His Ser Tyr Ser Gln Leu Leu Met Tyr Pro 290 295 300 tat ggg tac tca gtc aaa aag gcc cca gat gcc gag gaa ctc gac aag 1009 Tyr Gly Tyr Ser Val Lys Lys Ala Pro Asp Ala Glu Glu Leu Asp Lys 305 310 315 gtg gcg agg ctt gcg gcc aaa gct ctg gct tct gtg tcg ggc act gag 1057 Val Ala Arg Leu Ala Ala Lys Ala Leu Ala Ser Val Ser Gly Thr Glu 320 325 330 tac caa gtg ggt ccc acc tgc acc act gtc tta taaactgcca aaactgggag 1110 Tyr Gln Val Gly Pro Thr Cys Thr Thr Val Leu 335 340 atactcatca gattgctcca acagaagagg aggaaggctc tcccgagggc tgtccaggag 1170 acataaaatt tctacctttt cttttctttt tgaaatggag tttcgtttcg ctcttgttgc 1230 ccaggctgga gtgcaatggc gtgatctcca ctcatcgcaa cttccgcctc ccaggttcaa 1290 gcgattcccc tgcctcagcc tcccgagtaa ctgggattat aggcatgtgc cccaccccca 1350 actaattttt gtatttttag tagagatggg gtttctccat gttggtcagt ctggtcttga 1410 gctcccgacc tcaggtgatc tgcccgcctc ggcctctcaa agtgctggga ttacaggcgt 1470 gagccacagc acccggccaa aatgtccacc ttttctaaga gcccatcttc catattcttt 1530 ataggccttg tctgtccttg ttttttcaaa aaaaaaacaa tcaatttttg tataatagca 1590 ctctatccaa cgccataggt tatggtgtgt gctacataca cagtcgacgt ttgtcctttc 1650 aagtgctggg ccttttccta gatcgccatt ttagaggaaa ataattctaa aatggatttt 1710 acactcttct gccttctaaa acagagcatg gagaagagat ttaagcccct tttttcatgg 1770 ttaagtgtac ttctcaacct cagttcgtat atgctaaagg cctactctgc cgtcttggac 1830 tgtttggacc ttctgctaaa tgatcctggc ctgttttcct tcttgtgttt gctttgtaga 1890 gttttgtgtc tcctttctcc tgccagactg tcagcagtag cttgtattgc ttcaggccaa 1950 cagcctctag caaccctttc ccctcctctt cactgattct gctccaggaa gggcttggaa 2010 acaagttctt tgggttcatc tgacttgtgg ataacacagt ttcatgtact ttttgtagtt 2070 cataagcgtg gtgattgggt tttcacgctc atgtgtgaca tatgccttcc tccaattttg 2130 ttacaatgtt ggtgcgttac ccatcagaca tgggggaaga aagggtgttc atgacagcat 2190 tatccatagt tacaaaagac atgtacaggg gccaagggaa aacttcccct ttgccttctg 2250 aaggttcatt gaaaaatcaa ctgaccaaag gcagatcgat aggagaaaag gcatacaaaa 2310 ttttatttta gtgtgcatgg cacaggggaa tcacaggaga atgatttccc aataacccaa 2370 tggggcacag aagcttgtat accctttttc atacaggagg gaggagatgt atggactggg 2430 gaggtgggag gcagatatta caggaaggtg aggggcggag ctgtacagga acaaagcttg 2490 tcttattaag cagataaagt cctccaggca atctcttgga gctgctctca gaagaataga 2550 tgaagtctgt ctgggtgtgg tgatgattcc cagtctcatc tcttctggtg gtttatcttt 2610 cttggttatt tgatgagacc tctagggagg gtgtttaaga caattgcatt tcttttggaa 2670 agatgctttc ttggtcagat gaggaaattt ccaaagacag acagtccctc cctgtgtttg 2730 gtggtggggc aggtatgggg aacaagaagt tagagggacc ttggttcggg ggcggcttct 2790 gagggccctc agcatgtcaa aacatcagcc tttgggatat cactttctga gccccaaccc 2850 ttgtaagtgt ctaaaatgtc cacctagaga atgcaggata aatacacatt tggtgcattc 2910 acacaatgca gcactacgga gcccttaaat gaatgaggta gatctatgtg cgctaaaagg 2970 gaatactcac caattgttaa ttgaaaaata catgtgcaga acagcgttaa tagtgtgttc 3030 ccattttttg ttgttgttat tgtttttaaa gagtaggtag actttcagca gggacccaaa 3090 taaagtgaag tttacaaact tcgtcatttt gactgaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa 3150 aaaaaa 3156 14 360 PRT Homo sapiens misc_feature Clone OAF075b derived from human bone marrow stroma cell HAS303 14 Met Arg Trp Ile Leu Phe Ile Gly Ala Leu Ile Gly Ser Ser Ile Cys -15 -10 -5 -1 Gly Gln Glu Lys Phe Phe Gly Asp Gln Val Phe Arg Ile Asn Val Arg 1 5 10 15 Asn Gly Asp Glu Ile Ser Lys Leu Ser Gln Leu Val Asn Ser Asn Asn 20 25 30 Leu Lys Leu Asn Phe Trp Lys Ser Pro Ser Ser Phe Asn Arg Pro Val 35 40 45 Asp Val Leu Val Pro Ser Val Ser Leu Gln Ala Phe Lys Ser Phe Leu 50 55 60 Arg Ser Gln Gly Leu Glu Tyr Ala Val Thr Ile Glu Asp Leu Gln Ala 65 70 75 80 Leu Leu Asp Asn Glu Asp Asp Glu Met Gln His Asn Glu Gly Gln Glu 85 90 95 Arg Ser Ser Asn Asn Phe Asn Tyr Gly Ala Tyr His Ser Leu Glu Ala 100 105 110 Ile Tyr His Glu Met Asp Asn Ile Ala Ala Asp Phe Pro Asp Leu Ala 115 120 125 Arg Arg Val Lys Ile Gly His Ser Phe Glu Asn Arg Pro Met Tyr Val 130 135 140 Leu Lys Phe Ser Thr Gly Lys Gly Val Arg Arg Pro Ala Val Trp Leu 145 150 155 160 Asn Ala Gly Ile His Ser Arg Glu Trp Ile Ser Gln Ala Thr Ala Ile 165 170 175 Trp Thr Ala Arg Lys Ile Val Ser Asp Tyr Gln Arg Asp Pro Ala Ile 180 185 190 Thr Ser Ile Leu Glu Lys Met Asp Ile Phe Leu Leu Pro Val Ala Asn 195 200 205 Pro Asp Gly Tyr Val Tyr Thr Gln Thr Gln Asn Arg Leu Trp Arg Lys 210 215 220 Thr Arg Ser Arg Asn Pro Gly Ser Ser Cys Ile Gly Ala Asp Pro Asn 225 230 235 240 Arg Ser Trp Asn Ala Ser Phe Ala Gly Lys Gly Ala Ser Asp Asn Pro 245 250 255 Cys Ser Glu Val Tyr His Gly Pro His Ala Asn Ser Glu Val Glu Val 260 265 270 Lys Ser Val Val Asp Phe Ile Gln Lys His Gly Asn Phe Lys Cys Phe 275 280 285 Ile Asp Leu His Ser Tyr Ser Gln Leu Leu Met Tyr Pro Tyr Gly Tyr 290 295 300 Ser Val Lys Lys Ala Pro Asp Ala Glu Glu Leu Asp Lys Val Ala Arg 305 310 315 320 Leu Ala Ala Lys Ala Leu Ala Ser Val Ser Gly Thr Glu Tyr Gln Val 325 330 335 Gly Pro Thr Cys Thr Thr Val Leu 340 15 35 DNA Artificial Primer 15 cgattgaatt ctagacctgc ctcgagnnnn nnnnn 35 16 27 DNA Artificial Primer OC001-F1 16 gtccttcagc aaaacagtgg atttaaa 27 17 27 DNA Artificial Primer OM237-F1 17 ccagaaagca cagccctgat tctgcgt 27 18 24 DNA Artificial Primer OA004-F1 18 atgcacatct tcaagcatgc tcag 24 19 27 DNA Artificial Primer OAF075-F1 19 ccccggggac atgaggtgga tactgtt 27 

1. A substantially purified form of the polypeptide comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or 12, homologue thereof, fragment thereof or homologue of the fragment.
 2. A polypeptide according to claim 1 comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 1, 4, 6, 9 or
 12. 3. A cDNA encoding the polypeptide according to claim
 1. 4. A cDNA according to claim 3 comprising the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 2, 5, 7, 10 or 13, or a fragment cDNA selectively hybridized to the cDNA.
 5. A cDNA according to claim 3 comprising the nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NOS. 3, 8, 11 or 14, or a fragment cDNA selectively hybridized to the cDNA.
 6. A replication or expression vector carrying the cDNA according to claims 3 to
 5. 7. A host cell transformed with the replication or expression vector according to claim
 6. 8. A method for producing the polypeptide according to claim 1 or 2 which comprises culturing a host cell according to claim 7 under a condition effective to express the polypeptide according to claim 1 or
 2. 9. A monoclonal or polyclonal antibody against the polypeptide according to claim 1 or
 2. 10. A pharmaceutical composition containing the polypeptide according to claim 1 or 2 or the antibody according to claim 9, in association with pharmaceutically acceptable diluent and/or carrier. 